Pluck Comments

Designed for very high volume sites, Pluck Comments is a flexible application powering conversation on some of the world’s leading web sites, giving voice to visitors who want to react to original web site content.  For publishers, Pluck Comments provide an especially valuable enhancement to core editorial content, proven to drive page views. For brands and retailers, Pluck Comments is a versatile application with uses far beyond the traditional: organizations as diverse as Scotts, Whole Foods and the NFL use Pluck Comments to create conversation around their core site content and experiences.

Key Features

Integrated Mini-Personas – Presents a user profile snapshot upon hover over of any avatar in the Comments stream.

Ignore User – Users can chose to ignore comments made by any user in the system, allowing users the ability to easily ignore input from users they find offensive or meaningless.

Comment Replies – Users can reply to any comment in the system, creating a threaded conversation.

Crowdsourced opinions – Integrated “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” feature on each comment, allowing for the best comments to be surfaced.

Social Bridging – Allows users to post their comments to Facebook and Twitter in addition to the site.

Social Sharing – An RSS feed and a toolbar enable sharing with various social bookmarking services.

In-line Moderation Tools – Comment blocking and deleting features allow moderators to manage comment streams directly from their site.

Rich Sorting & Filtering Options – Enabling comments to be sorted and displayed along dimensions including oldest to newest, newest to oldest, highest score, most active comments, and filtered according to a user’s friends, featured users, and highest ranking users.

Pagination Features – Capabilities which allow publishers to monetize content through page view depth.

Comment Permalinks – Allow users to link directly to an individual site comment.

Integrated Discovery – Surfacing the most active and popular content.

Advanced Moderation Capabilities – Enabling pre/post moderation, automatic approval by user tier, word filtering, and community abuse reporting.