I overheard a conversation yesterday where one person was saying that as Disqus was the default comments add-on/software on the majority of newspaper websites worldwide, as well as thousands of websites it was the perfect device for monitoring 'dissent' (anything that goes against large vested interests) and the upvotes and downvotes feature logged the IP address of the user. It sounded a bit tinfoil hatty, but I was curious what the well-informed here had to say
SHJ