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Description
If you’re tired of approving readers’ comments on your blog, stop doing that and let your readers decide which comment deserves to be shown. If you’re getting outrageous comments on your blog, don’t get too angry yet. Let’s see how many readers feel the same. You can do these two tasks with the Comment Rating plugin.
This plugin automatically embeds clickable images in comments. It uses simple AJAX javascript to allow your visitors rate comments in Like vs. Dislike fashion. The votes are displayed along with the comments. The up or down vote counters will change rightaway after the visitor casts a vote and the images change from color to grey indicating the vote has been accepted.
To prevent cheating, only one vote is allowed per IP address. This is less subject to manipulation than cookie based approaches. The author of a comment cannot rate his/her own comment.
New in version 2.3/2.4: Poorly rated comments (too many Dislikes, not enough Likes) can be hidden in a click-to-see link, just like those on Digg. The threshholds for the rating is configurable. This way, comments from trolls and “bad guys” will be hidden by default for anyone who doesn’t want to see them, with the option to read the comment if they really want to. Formatting of the hidden comments can be customized.
Highly-rated comments can also be displayed differently. The default styling is to highlight them. You can customize it e.g. in a different font.
Thanks to Jean-Paul Horn and many other users for ideas and suggestions.
This plugin also allows other use of Wordpress as a general CMS in a Web 2.0 fashion. User generated content can be rated by other users. Such an example website is Caption Wit.
The design principle of the plugin is simple and light-weight (i.e. high performance). It’s also wp-cache and wp-super-cache friendly.
Comment Rating plugin built on top of Alex Bailey’s discontinued Comment Karma.
Settings
You can configure the options under Setting -> Comment Rating. The default options should be good enough. It works out of box. You are done. Sit back and have a look at your blog.
Screenshots
Example a Wordpress installation right after installation.
An example website Caption Wit.
Option page showing the rich & flexible configuration features.
