On: Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments

[mintplant]

I can see this creating more headaches for moderators. It's already difficult enough to get people to read the rules before posting.

[__david__ → mintplant]

I imagine embeds would be enabled/disabled per subreddit so mods wouldn't have to deal with it if they didn't want to. A blog that wants to add comments from Reddit would start their own subreddit.

[doubt_me → mintplant]

Auto mod. Headaches for mods don't exist because it's just a website and not a job.

[mintplant → doubt_me]

As a former moderator of a default subreddit, I don't think you know what you're talking about here. AutoMod is a useful tool but can only implement basic rules—it's more a supplement to human moderators. And people of course care about things that aren't their jobs.