Saturday, February 20, 2016

"All-Stars are the star contributors of Disqus. If you’ve come across them, you know they have a lot to say in their comments and discussions. They stand out for bringing their authenticity, knowledge, and personality to communities. Often, they are the hearts of the community and what makes this corner of the Internet a special place to be."
All-stars was originally meant to be a reward for community members who made a positive contribution to Disqus. Now it is rapidly becoming an exclusive club for friends of Saeeds to use their friendship with him to harass community members with impunity. Since all-stars are nominated by other all-stars they can chose who is allowed into the exclusive club. 
Disqus could open up the all-star nominations to the entire community by putting the nominations on Disqus Announcements, but then Saeed and his friends would no longer control who is rewarded.
Being an all-star who is also Saeeds friend allows the special privileges like saying and doing whatever they want without losing their god star, even if they repeatedly disrupt Disqus, violate policies, threaten community members or openly attack community members.
Discus.com has a decent concept that is being destroyed by an employee protecting his friends and allowing them to do as they wish without consequences.
These gold stars have proven time and time again that they should no longer have gold stars, gmartini, leslie.lanister, SamJ and Coccyx. Yet Saeed will not remove their gold stars because they are his friends. 
Disqus needs to handle their employees lack of interest in doing his job.

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