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<p><a href="https://commentbox.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">CommentBox.io</a> is a privacy-conscious hosted commenting system. In direct contrast to Disqus, we don’t serve ads or mine user data. Our main goal is to provide an excellent commenting experience for both our customers and their end-users, with a philosophy of friendliness, transparency, and responsibility.</p>
<p>To learn more, check us out <a href="https://commentbox.io" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>User-centric</strong>: Comments are our business. Not ads, not data. And no emails you didn’t ask for.</li>
<li><strong>Simple design</strong>: Clean, modern, and subtle enough to blend in with your aesthetic.</li>
<li><strong>Easy Moderation</strong>: Tame the wild west of internet comments with granular comment filters and user blocking.</li>
<li><strong>Reliable</strong>: Comments are saved in highly-available, multi-region storage.</li>
<li><strong>No lock-in</strong>: Export your comments on demand, directly from the dashboard.</li>
<li><strong>Extensible</strong>: Use webhooks to automatically send your comments anywhere.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Commenting</h4>
<ul>
<li>Comment or reply to comments using a subset of markdown.</li>
<li>Vote comments up or down.</li>
<li>Optionally be notified via email about replies to your comments.</li>
<li>Optionally post comments anonymously.</li>
<li>Flag improper comments to grab a moderator’s attention.</li>
<li>Requires email login or convenient social login via Facebook, Twitter, and Google.</li>
<li>Logins are preserved across websites, greatly reducing user friction.</li>
<li>Moderators can pin comments to the top, delete comments, and block users directly from the plugin.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Moderation</h4>
<ul>
<li>Comments can either be automatically approved, require review, or be tested for review using granular filters.</li>
<li>We can notify you of comments requiring moderation via email, slack, or custom webhooks.</li>
<li>Search for and filter comments in the dashboard.</li>
<li>Block users for a period of time or permanently.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you need any help or have any questions, feel free to reach out to hello@commentbox.io. A real human will reply!</p>


CommentBox.io Hosted Comments

A beautiful, ad-free, hosted commenting alternative to Disqus.

<p>Have you ever wanted to highlight a valuable comment among all others? Or not let that troll 6-paragraphs comment take more space than it deserve? Or even hide a whole thread of offtipics?</p>
<p>Well, now you can!</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://hikari.ws/featured-comments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Hikari Featured Comments</a></strong> is a simple plugin that adds 3 new custom fields to comments, allowing you to add special properties to each of them.</p>
<p>With this feature available, you can query any comment to know if it has any of those properties flagged, and if so you can take special actions within your theme or another plugin.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<p>There are 3 special properties available, you can give them any semantic you like, but default meanings are as follows:<br />
* <em>Featured</em>: a comment flagged as featured should be highlighted from all others. You can give it special CSS styles from your theme to make it more visible among all comments, and flag any valuable comment as so.<br />
* <em>Buried</em>: a buried comment is a comment you don’t wanna just delete, but also don’t want it as visible as all others. You can use it to hide offtopic comments which you don’t want to perpetuate.<br />
* <em>Children/Threaded buried</em>: this one has similar meaning to the former, but it should be applied to nested/threaded/children comments of the flagged comment.</p>
<p>Note that any comment can be independently flagged as <em>Buried</em> and <em>Children buried</em>, therefore a Children buried comment shouldn’t have special styles applied to itself. In the same way, you can also have a featured AND buried comment, having both styles should be applied together!</p>
<p><strong>Hikari Featured Comments</strong> provides a special metabox in comment edit page (/wp-admin/comment.php?action=editcomment&c=XXXX) where you can flag these properties, and it automatically attach new classes (<code>featured</code>, <code>buried</code>, <code>children_buried</code>) to comments in frontend.</p>


Hikari Featured Comments

It adds 3 new custom fields to comments (Featured, Buried, Children buried), allowing you to add special properties to each of them.

CommentBox.io Hosted Comments vs Hikari Featured Comments