Posts by Mario Paganini

Putting Community First: What Publishers Can Learn From The Avocado

Putting Community First: What Publishers Can Learn From The Avocado

At Disqus we have the privilege of supporting many of the web’s diverse communities. Today, we wanted to shed some light on one of our personal favorites, The Avocado, and share some insights that are applicable to all publishers.
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How CinemaBlend is Optimizing their Content Strategy with Disqus

How CinemaBlend is Optimizing their Content Strategy with Disqus

A highly engaged audience can be a publisher's greatest asset. More direct traffic, time on site and subscriptions, better performing ads, and increased reader advocacy are all byproducts of loyal, engaged audiences. However, with more and more sources battling for reader attention, converting casual readers into loyal contributors can be a challenge for publishers.
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Detect and Manage Toxic Content with the Toxicity Mod Filter

Detect and Manage Toxic Content with the Toxicity Mod Filter

The Toxicity Mod Filter, a new feature to help publishers detect and manage toxic comments, is now available for publishers across our network.
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New Tools for Your Community: Comment Policy, Thread-level Pre-moderation, and Flagging Reasons

New Tools for Your Community: Comment Policy, Thread-level Pre-moderation, and Flagging Reasons

Recently we've talked a lot about improving discussion quality and easing the burden of moderation for publishers. We're committed to continually delivering new features and functionality to help publishers foster high quality discussions while spending less time moderating. Over the next couple months we will release several moderation related updates. Today we're excited to announce the first of these updates that includes three new features - Comment Policy, Thread-level Pre-moderation, and Flagging Reasons.
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Introducing Shadow Banning and Timeouts

Introducing Shadow Banning and Timeouts

2 new tools to fight trolls, improve discussion quality, and save your team time! We're excited to announce two new moderation features for publishers using Disqus Pro - Shadow Banning and Timeouts. With these new features at their disposal, moderators now have even more flexibility when dealing with troublesome users. While the traditional user banning feature is a great way for moderators to keep spammers and trolls out of their communities, a one size fits all solution is not always flexible enough to deal with different types of users. That's where Shadow Banning and Timeouts come into play.
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Announcing Disqus Pro and Disqus Plus: New Plans, More Options for Publishers

Announcing Disqus Pro and Disqus Plus: New Plans, More Options for Publishers

Earlier this year we wrote about our plans to release new versions of Disqus with optional advertising and new features to give publishers more options for growing and managing their audiences. We're excited to announce that recently we launched Disqus Pro and Disqus Plus, our first two subscription versions of Disqus.
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Advertising Will Remain Optional for Over 95% of Sites on Disqus

Advertising Will Remain Optional for Over 95% of Sites on Disqus

Over the past month we’ve been talking to publishers of all sizes about our plans for 2017. During this process we’ve picked up some great feedback that we look forward to incorporating in future releases. In the meantime, we want to clarify our intent to keep Disqus free to use and address some frequent questions about advertising.
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Our Commitment to Fighting Hate Speech

Our Commitment to Fighting Hate Speech

Free speech is a fundamental part of the Disqus network. We power diverse discussions across millions of websites, reaching billions of readers. Our platform enables people from across the web and around the world to share, discuss, and debate issues and their beliefs. Whether or not we personally identify with everything posted on our network, we believe in the right to speak our minds and share our ideas.
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Introducing in-thread ads: your new way to earn more

Introducing in-thread ads: your new way to earn more

Today we’re excited to announce a new, Disqus-exclusive ad-position for Reveal. Reveal’s new in-thread ad-position allows publishers to take advantage of brand new inventory. We built in-thread to help more publishers earn more revenue from their engaged communities.
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Time to go vote!

Time to go vote!

We love to see commenters use Disqus to share their opinions in a free and open environment. Over the past 18+ months we've powered passionate discussions about the 2016 presidential election on the The Hill, Rolling Stone, Breitbart, The Atlantic, CNBC, Mediaite, SayAnythingBlog.com, Red State, and many more sites across the internet.
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