Yesterday Entrecard founder Graham Langdon published a blog post to announce a big new partnership between Entrecard and Sezwho, the comment rating system. As you can see below [in the comments section of this post], this blog now features the Sezwho system. By no means is this a permanent addition to the blog here. For the next week, we’ll have a test run so if you have any issues with the new rating system, let me know! If there are no bugs and you all find it to be a good addition to the site then it will remain.
Also, while evaluating Sezwho, I’ve also decided to keep the Entrecard system up for now. Entrecard will now be rewarding users for thoughtful comments (based on the comments’ rating) with Entrecard credits, which I think is a much better system than clicking drop on other people’s cards. If you’re subscribed via the RSS feed [and if you’re not subscribed, sign up today!] then the new comment rating system should not affect your feed viewing. Remember, using the Sezwho ratings is completely voluntary but if you have any issues with it, please let me know!
I was just about to ditch Entrecard myself. I am really looking forward to this and hope it can bring us some more useful comments to our blogs. I just installed the SezWho plug-in myself and so far I think it is a decent tool.
But we will see…
I was just about ready to leave too so the timing is really good for Entrecard, we shall see though. I’m not a fan of the CSS popups and I’m looking to find a way to disable them, if there is now way and comments don’t really jump up then Sezwho and Entrecard will be gone, but we shall see!
I have been with Entrecard for awhile and I am really excited about this. Mostly because now there is a way to earn credits that really brings value to the blogs you visit.
I love Entrecard for the visitors, and I think I am really going to enjoy SezWho for the comments!
Truth Kat. This new system of earning credits by commenting well just helps good bloggers instead of encouraging people to scheme the drop system to rack up credits. I’m hoping that entrecard continues this shift and allocates more credits towards the comments side rather than the drops side but we’ll see how this works out.
I’m not completely sold but it sounds good. I’ll post an analysis at the end of this week.
Adam, it looks like SezWho is gone. I take it that means you weren’t impressed??
No, I was not impressed! In fact SezWho brought down my blog for nearly half a day and at that point it was time for the plugin to go (they had server issues, which prevented the plugin from working, which prevented my blog from showing up — not good!). Plus, I don’t think it adds much to the discussion here to have a rating system.