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by netcan 4428 days ago
sheesh. That's a bit much.

The site owner chooses a commenting system. People who want to comment, comment using it. Victims?!

2 comments

Victims is a pretty loaded term, but it's not an unreasonable accusation. The number of unique monthly users of disqus shouldn't be based on those who unwittingly use it.

Reading your comment again, I wonder what the true definition is. Is the number based on page views? Or is it the number of people who actively interact with the widget (say, posting a comment) after it has loaded? Sounds like you're assuming the later metric while the 'victims' comment is assuming the former.

Edit: thinking about it, 1 billion unique people, that sounds like the victim class to me.

yep, speak my peace or not, have no voice or use their crap system. victim is about right imho.