Re: /socnets: BackType Beats Disqus to Implementation on Social Media Reactions

April 9 2009, 11:54am

Another thing that nobody seems to address with BackType (unless i'm missing it somewhere) is that it is far too easy for anyone to leave a comment on a blog using your name and your URL, essentially "posing" as yourself. There is no authentication going on ... so if someone made BackType a fixture on their public facing website it would be way to easy to deface said website. For a lesser known person (like me) it would hardly make much difference because nobody would even notice the defacing... but for more well known personalities (like you, or scoble, or any of the other slew of top bloggers out there) having BackType content displayed on their own site would pretty much make them an instant target for trolls (see: the skittle twitter saga). While the concept is honorable and the work they have put into their system is something to tip my hat to, I just see it being too risky to ever become an integral part of one's blog.Then again... it's not like there are any people with bad intentions on the web, eh? (end sarcasm) ;)EDIT: I am aware that you can moderate... but sometimes the damage is done... and you can't moderate all the different places that the data is passed via RSS.