As the Internet grows, so does the
power of the user. From personal profiles to product ratings to blogs,
the Web provides opportunities to be
seen and heard.
One of the most prominent methods in which users speak their
virtual voices is through commenting. Commenting gives users power of opinion and
personalizes the web browsing experience.
Just ask
Intense Debate, a company that truly appreciates the value of a comment.
Intense Debate aims to make Internet commenting
easier and more organized. By offering several key features that add to the
user’s capabilities, Intense Debate aims to not only
improve the process, but improve the results, meaning more views for your
comments.
First off,
Intense Debate offers a Tracking/ Notification feature, which allows the user
to subscribe to his or her friends’ blogs and receive notifications every
time there is activity. Furthermore, the notification feature saves the user
the time of checking whether someone has responded to one of his or her
comments.
To continue
with the idea of simplicity, Intense Debate also improves on
the structure of comments. The change is that comments are threaded, which
allows you to reply directly to a specific comment. The replies to your comment
are indented at different levels to make it easier to follow the various
conversations.
Intense Debate gives even more power to the people by giving the user even more
of a voice. With the Reputation/ Comment Voting feature, users are not limited
to writing out their thoughts, they can also approve or disapprove of a comment by voting on it; this vote factors into the commenter’s
reputation and gives others an idea of the user’s history. All of this
information is part of the Profile feature, which enables users to better
connect, find other users, and allow for easy linking to blogs and
websites.
And
following up on the idea of linking to other sites, the Social Traffic Drive
feature allows users to leave, along with their comments, links to their social
networks, blogs, and stream of RSS feeds. This is what aims to generate higher
traffic to your sites and comments.
But Intense
Debate also enables you to better manage your personal blogs. By allowing you
to moderate comments form several different sites in one location and by
providing you with an overview of activity across all your blogs, Intense
Debate is improving almost all aspects of the comment world.
As user-generated content explodes, it’s not hard to imagine a company like Intense Debate
succeeding. By making commenting easier, more organized, and more efficient,
Intense Debate should soon be attracting customers that range from common users
to well-established companies.
