How to disable disqus comment voting / clout control

There's been some back and forth on the comment rating and clout surrounding the disqus commenting system, which I use and happen to like. I found a quick and dirty solution to hiding the voting arrows on your site using jQuery.

Since I brought up the initial discussion on the disqus forum, there has been some dialogue about the topic, which is good. At one time I had a -1 clout for no real apparent reason. It seems like they've been tweaking it a bit and things have definitely improved.

I know there are some users who would like to disable comment voting on their site. When there are controversial topics and/or heated debate, often times a comment will get rated down simply because someone has a difference of opinion, as opposed to rating the actual quality of the comment. Meaning, the comment may have been insightful but if you don't agree, you vote it down. Not cool.

Anyway I don't really have a beef, I just wanted to see if I could disable it. This is a no brainer solution but thought I'd point it out anyway. You'll need to have jQuery and be somewhat familiar with javascript I guess.


    $(document).ready(function(){ 
        $('a.dsq-arrows').hide(); 
    });

It's so silly and simple it hardly calls for a blog entry. But I like to show how simple and straight forward jQuery is. What this does is uses the almighty power of the jQuery Selector to hide the element surrounding the arrows. jQuery selectors are a lot like how you use selectors in CSS.

I should mention that I took the script off my site so you're welcome to rate my comments down if you disagree :P