We're going to be moving all our game comments, profile comments, MMO comments and editorial comments over to Disqus as early as this Friday. Because of this, I wanted to give you a FAQ to help solve any mysteries on the process...
What about Merits?
Merits will not live on our website in the same way, they can't be tied directly into the Disqus system which means they will no longer be comment-based. A simple Merit system will be created on our launch Friday that will grow more robust with time - allowing moderators/admins to merit people directly. Later e-mail notifications will be added to this as well.
You can also "Feature" a comment in Disqus, so that could also be awarded with your merit.
What about non-AG armatars?
A big concession we had to make with the Disqus system is that a Disqus account trumps our normal user accounts. This means users can name themselves whatever they like, and associate any armatar they like to their profile.
There will be alterations in our rules that discuss impersonation of other users, especially Moderators/Admins that will result in permanent bans. Also utilizing any exclusive armatars will result in a warning and possible further punishment.
Guest Accounts?
Guest accounts will be killed on site, and your real account warned. Guest accounts are not allowed on our Disqus comments.
Colored text for Knights/Admins/Moderators?
Not available right now in Disqus. You'll notice our accounts have "Moderator" next to our names. This text may change, but it means that person has moderator powers over Disqus comments.
What about total comment count?
This should be worked on before launch as well, nobody should lose their comment counts, just add on to their total.
What about old comments?
Still unknown the degree we'll be transferring over old comments. I'd love to hear your opinions though. This obviously is very tedious work, but I think me and @boppins agree that certain games (or comments) should make it over.
I just found something related to Disqus that doesn't make sense but is not necessarily a glitch. Disqus now shows my comment count as 35, but I have definitely not made that many comments since the new commenting system was released. The addition of the following screenshot specifies the nonsense:
The top comment in that screenshot is the first one I made under the new system. The bottom comment is a comment I made 3 years ago in a game called Indestruc2Tank.
Perhaps comments from the legacy system are being transferred over to Disqus.
I guess my confusion just now arose because my latest comment is either by a user who had their account closed, if anything for sending out random inane hiya's I guess; or, they were a non-AG member to begin with. So there's no AG account to show there.
I assume the latter should be impossible, so non-AG members finding you & commenting. Right?
That's true. Words perviously not allowed are now "allowed" AG does not allow these words to be used, but Disqus allows them. :/ I would flag and report if someone is using those words.
