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Here's an angle you might consider pursuing. Disqus basically doesn't follow their terms of service:

https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1097690326477635584

Perhaps there's a niche there for someone who is a bit more stringent about keeping out the garbage.



It's not even just that lol, Disqus is still "working towards GDPR compliance" according to their privacy policy [1], almost a full year after GDPR came into effect.

[1] http://archive.is/is90r


having a terms of service doesn't magically give you super powers for policing content


People continue to report sites like that for the hate speech, racism and so on, and Disqus doesn't do anything. They could easily drop the entire site.


Their customer is the site, not the commentators (or people reporting negative comments)? So dropping an entire site due to a lot of complaints would just hurt their revenue. Also it wouldn't necessarily be fair to the site if there's a lot of trolls and racists etc in the comments through no fault of the site.




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