I had started blogging with Blogger (Blogspot) before I switched to WordPress. Ever since switching, I realized how much I disliked Blogger’s commenting system. Until recently, it didn’t even have avatars. There is no way for bloggers to personally contact the commenter as no option provides a user’s email. In addition, many users don’t take advantage of embedding comments under the posts, so the Post a Comment button takes you to a strange page on blogger.com. See this post [...]

YouTube, the very popular video sharing website now owned by Google, allows users to delete their own comments. However, YouTube still leaves “Comment removed by author” in the place of the deleted comment, so there is still a record of comment previously existing even though the actual content of the comment can’t be viewed… or can it? There is no button that says “Show anyway” and its not buried in the source code either. So what do I mean “or can it?” For [...]