Today we’ve released a couple new features on the administrative side of Disqus. That’s right — this one is for the moderators!

Comment Editing For Moderators:

Moderators may now edit “the display” of a user’s comments. That means that publishers can control what is displayed on their site, while commenters still retain their original comments.

So how does that work?

When moderators edit a comment, a note will be added (Edited by a moderator) so this change will be transparent to readers. Commenters’ original comments are preserved in their profiles.

At Disqus, we believe that a comment is a shared entity between a site and the person who left the comment. The commenter has the right to retain his or her original contribution, but the site publisher may choose to remove or edit the content on the site. This feature was designed to address both cases.

Whitelisting:

Whitelisting provides moderators a one time approve method for repeat commenters. Comments from these people will never need to be approved again, even if you have set the option above that moderators must approve comments “from everyone”. The moderators of this site are automatically whitelisted.

You can whitelist commenters from two places. From the Moderate page: after approving a comment, you will have the option to whitelist the commenter for future commenters.

You can also explicitly add commenters from the Permissions page.

• Visit: disqus.com/admin/permissions/
• Scroll down to Whitelisting
• Enter the Username or Email of the person to be whitelisted.
• Click Add

Cheers,