No, I haven’t. However I have Jetpack on all my sites. Maybe I will take a look.

Yes, this could work, probably best on full width layout, I can’t imagine it on a traditional two columns design.

Yes, I have no control over Google+ comments, probably this is not the case for blogs on “Blogger” (haven’t tried that though).

I can’t think of this as manually moderated, in most cases there should be an algorithm. Something like; reported comments gets deleted after a specific number of few reports.

And, yes.. this can be painful for any website!

I am getting more comments in the G+ system (also more pluses), probably because it’s on the top of WP comments, most people won’t recognize the WP comments form as it’s pushed to the very bottom of the page.

The only good thing I really like is that I have can track all shares, and comments on those shares, this is something I couldn’t do in one place/page (maybe it’s only me).

The most annoying thing is having no control over comments, I can’t delete any comment on Google+ system, I only have the option to report them, then Google decides.

Have you used the default commenting system with Jetpack? That’s what I use here just now. It seems to work fairly well with Akismet.

I do like the idea of tracking shares etc, though I don’t want to split up comments. A good solution would be to design the comment area so that Google+ was shown on the left and regular comments on the right.

That is something I didn’t even look into. So you effectively have zero control over comments on your own website? That is a bit worrying. Google have never been quick at responding to support emails so it is doubtful they are going to manually moderate millions of comments on Google+. It has to be automatic. Whilst they probably have something configured to tackle racism etc, what if someone is just leaving negative comments to try and damage your website’s reputation?

I think creating tabs for the different discussion systems still leaves the problems with dividing the discussion. Plus, in my experience, most people will not view the other tabs. They are much more likely to just view the comments in the default tab.

I agree that the default commenting system is best. I’d love a good third party commenting system to come out that offered social media integration without all the limitations that Livefyre and Disqus has.

Have you seen comments increase or decrease since adding Google+?

Kevin