As some of you lot might accept noticed today, nosotros have implemented a new commenting system. This is the first major item on our listing of improvements for 2011 and one that we spent a lot of time analyzing. The Disqus platform will allow us to accomplish ane of our ultimate goals: building a strong and answerable community effectually BMWBLOG.

The new commenting system offers some features that are a crossover betwixt a "regular" commenting setup, a forum and a social network. Our new comments system, provides readers with a big number of advantages:

  • Power to edit your comments
  • Ability to sort comments by Newest Commencement, Oldest Get-go, Best Rating and Popular Now
  • Ability to share your comments on Twitter and  Facebook
  • Ability to login with your Disqus account, Facebook, Twitter, OpenID and Yahoo.
  • Ability to subscribe to individual comment threads by email or past RSS. If you subscribe to a thread past email, you can reply to comments in that thread via email.
  • Power to attach an image or a video to your comment simply past including its URL inside your comment.
  • Ability to like comments and also like or dislike the commodity
  • Power to flag comments that volition go to moderators for review

Let's have a closer wait at some of these features.

disqus4 655x406 To comment on BMWBLOG, you can practice and then in several ways. If you lot already accept a Facebook, Twitter, OpenID or Yahoo account, you lot can login using any one of those by clicking on the appropriate linked button for each above the comment box. If you would like to build a profile and a social presence on the site, we recommend creating a Disqus profile. All you need is a valid electronic mail address. Having a profile on the site, yous will be able to customize in many ways, including adding your Name, Website, Location, Short Bio, Avatar, Facebook account, Twitter name. Furthermore, yous can customize your notification settings, you tin can accept the organization electronic mail you every time at that place is a new comment in the article you recently left your opinion or you can be notified when someone specifically replies to one of your comments.

Another real value that a profile brings is the power to track and edit your comments across all websites that use Disqus.

If your comments are proven to exist useful, insightful or just bully, other readers volition requite y'all "Likes". Those get counted and your profile will display the number of "Likes" received, a sign of your authority and integrity. By clicking on the Avatar picture, the profile information is displayed, along with all the comments you've ever left on the site. We telephone call this transparency.

Past clicking on the Community box, you will exist able to meet the Most Active and Most Liked members, another bully way to acknowledge our loyal readers.

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From an operational and usability standpoint, nosotros improved the speed of the website by eliminating the refresh of a page each time y'all leave a comment.

In conclusion, DISQUS encourages conversation and in our opinion, will allow all of united states of america to connect easier and build relationships amongst ourselves. We hope y'all'll like information technology and embrace it.

Stay tuned in the post-obit weeks for further enhancements to your experience on BMWBLOG!