I just bridged phpBB and The Spearhead with WP-United. For now, commenting will require registration (this may change in the next release of WP-United), but otherwise the site will remain the same. Once you register you can comment away as though nothing happened (if you have registered on the forum you are already registered — it’s the same). Furthermore, the articles will automatically be posted to the forum, so from here on out we’ll have a forum dedicated to articles and their comments. This will provide a higher level of interactivity and allow discussion to continue as interest dictates.
This move ought to reduce trolling and thereby raise the quality of comments, as well as allow me to save many hours of time every week by freeing me from the frequent slogs through the spam folder and comments.
It might take a few days to fine-tune the system, but so far it seems to be running pretty well, and I don’t see any major issues.
So…
Carry on, and happy commenting!
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