Facebook has released an updated Comments Box plug-in for external websites that have to manage comments from readers.
The social networking company’s tool is aimed to help websites bring decency to their comments forums. Many times such forums quickly turn into a thread of insults, spam or ramblings by mostly anonymous readers.
After a website uses the Comments Box platform, a user of the "Facebook comments platform" on the website can post a comment to the site alone or have the comment also posted on their Facebook page. It will then appear in the News Feed of their Facebook friends with a link to the original article.
Facebook said its comments platform shows the Facebook profile picture and name of a reader making a comment. It maintains that its over 500 million members use real names.
The comments from a user’s Facebook friends would be highlighted while those considered spam will be hidden.
The tool includes moderation tools and allows users to become moderators as well.
Facebook said the tool also has a provision for people who do not have a Facebook account.
