I do use the SezWho on my site: http://cij.inspiriting.com.

Why did I use it? It’s a long story:

1. As in “Links in Comments?”, I do leave links to my site on comments. *MOST* blogs do not mind and have no problems with it. On my part, I do make sure I do contribute positively. But there’s *ONE* site (a commercial investment newsletter) who do not like what I did. Was I spamming? According to the feedback of my readers, the answer is *NO*. My readers appreciate the comments *AND* links that I placed on that site.

2. To cut the long story short, that site behaved rather unprofessionally, which is ironic because they’re a commercial business and I am just a blog.

3. So, I decided to use SezWho to lead by example. If someone posts worthless comments on my blog, then I’ll let the community censure that person.

How do I find SezWho?
So far, I like it. Everyone, including myself have a score that reflects the value of my comments. Those with higher scores will be given higher weight in their vote of other people’s comments. For example, if I have high aggregate score for my comments, then my vote for other people’s comments will carry greater weight. The good thing is, SezWho is smart enough not to let anyone vote for their own comments!

Personally, I would encourage blogs to use SezWho. You can register a SezWho profile which is valid across all blogs that uses SezWho. This is good because if you consistently give good comments, you’ll be rewarded with higher score. But that will work if every blog uses SezWho.

Just my 2 cents worth of opinion…

In some cases, I trust other companies enough, like Google for analytics and FeedBurner for feed redirection and tracking. But none of the third-party commenting services seem strong enough to be trustworthy. I wouldn’t want one going under and taking all my readers’ precious comments with it.

Now, having said all that, I have no experience with SezWho, so if anyone does, your take on this is welcome: please let us know what your experience has been.

I grew up in Northwest Indiana, the home of perfect accent-less anchorperson English.

Here I am, with a video. Oh god, I hate videos. Text all the way. Okay, well, there’s text, so I can get at least some of the story. Maybe half if I’m lucky.

Then I’m thinking, alright. I’ll break. Just this once. Does Michael Martine have an accent? I had to know.

I was thrilled to learn that I didn’t miss a *thing* by not watching the video (this is good, wait, it’s coming…) and that there was no itty bitty secret bit of vital information or hoop jumping that I had to do to connect on your blog.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for offering TWO mediums for people to enjoy – WITHOUT cutting either of them short.

(And no. No funky cool U.S. accent. Drat.)