Announcing Social Comments for Ghost

Most people on the internet hear the term "blog comments" and think ugh (derogatory) so much so that there are t-shirts and pins about how everyone should ignore them outright.As someone that was there in the early days of blogging, I watched and helped develop the ways that weblog comments were first deployed in various systems (I even created a whole community around them!), I always knew comments had real value. Mostly, the problem is how do you surface the gems from the drive-by noise? In the past, I'd require members to login or even pay a $5 cover fee before anyone could comment, but that really adds friction.Traditional blog commentsFor the first versions of weblog comments, we'd throw a blank form at the end of every post and people could fill it out with their name and comment, but they could impersonate literally anybody and say anything (derogatory). Then we moved to logins and memberships in various systems like blog engines and comment-specific apps, but that adds…