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It has just come to my attention that someone without an IntenseDebate account has to fill in the name, email, and URL every time they make a comment. However, they find this inconvenient, especially when contrasted with WordPress, which has the ability to remember these details without having to register an account.

Would it be possible to implement an autofill feature so that those who do not wish to create an IntenseDebate account would not have to always enter their profile?

I know you want people to go to IDC website, but I miss the possibility to set my site on my comments. It's a good way to leave a way to be contacted (better than leave an email and be visited by spammers), and also very useful to have more links to my site :P

You could let each one choose where their name will point to and put any other text on the right pointing to IDC. That would solve pvt contact also, and we would be able to choose if we want to link our email, any HTTP link or even anything else.

Currently the WP plugin very nicely replaces the comment count and comment form anchor with its own. However the rss feed for the post's comments is not replaced with IDC's.

I would be nice if that was automatically replaced as well to avoid someone subscribing there by mistake.

FYI, in WP post comment feeds are always in the form of: [Site Url]/[Post Url]/feed

Even though I managed to finally move Intense Debate Comments from blogspot to wordpress, I have lost all threading and rating and the like. I think this will also happens if anyone decides to move domains or platforms since the permalink structure will likely change.
So I'm thinking it would be a good idea for you guys to have some way that people can take the IDC comments of a site, as they are, and move them to another domain or permalink structure, thus avoiding any importing/exporting procedures

So, say for example that I moved from dbzer0.blogspot.com to dbzer0.com. my permalinks changed from dbzer0.blogspot.com/2008/08/blah.html
to dbzer0.com/blog/blah

I could edit my IDC setting for that blog and update the permalink and domain settings to show IDC what my new format it. Then I just install the IDC plugin in my new blog and all my comments show as before.

This is probably not something easy to implement but it would be very very useful.

I just imported my WP comments from two of my blogs (all went OK) but I noticed that things I've written in the past, are not attributed to me anymore.

I think there should be a way for an author that has registered to IDC to be able to claim the comments as his own somehow. I see that you're working on it but I don't know if it's going to happen or not. I thought a proper idea topic might be appropriate anyway.

Anyway, what I would need is some way to be able to claim the comments I made on my own blogs before I imported them. Similarly, my authors would want to do the same.

The way I can see this happening is possibly by allowing someone (registered with IDC) to request to claim any unclaimed comment. That would automatically trigger an email to the email address used when he posted the original comment with some kind of a unique claim link. Once that link is clicked, the commenter is verified as owning that email address and thus all the comments under that email address will be claimed.

Since Wordpress requires an email address to be used before you comment, that should be a possibility I believe.