Commenting & Likes Engine 

  Public Features

• Users can quickly and easily like content and post public comments.
• Users are able to reply directly to each other creating threads with a natural conversation flow.
• New commenter profiles allow members to find other members that are active on the site and see content the commenter has liked or commented on.
• Place teaser controls based on trending content, which will act as pivots directing viewers to sections of the site they may have not yet visited.
• Users can engage without the need for membership, and affiliates have control over which content requires membership for commenting.
• Make your commenters famous by pulling their profiles onto the page with the Top Commenters control.
• Users can choose to receive email notifications when other users reply to their comments across the site, sparking further conversation.
• Designated site authors’ comments have special prominence throughout a website.
• Leverage your community to catch offensive content with the ability to flag a comment.
• Users can subscribe to an RSS feed for the entire comment thread on a post in order to stay current with the conversation.

  Admin Features

• Full control over integration: turn commenting and liking on or off across the entire site, on each tool, or at the individual blog/channel level.
• Manage all comments across your site in one convenient Comments Dashboard.
• Convenient one-click filters in the Comments Overview section allows you to quickly find the comments that require attention and take action individually or use the bulk action options.
• Commenting and likes are configured separately so that you can enable one without the other at all levels.
• Add commenting as a control to any stand-alone page - create conversation around custom content, promotions, and anything else not tied to a tool with commenting built in.
• You can lock a comment thread for any piece of content at any point to prevent further comments or replies while preserving the existing conversation.
• Comments can be held for moderation or post instantly to the page.
• Tiered access for comment moderators so that you can control which comments a BaseStation user has access to moderate.
• Set up and manage email notifications for moderated comments, and receive notifications as they happen or as a daily digest.
• An activity report provides a roll-up of likes and comments for all content that has had at least one point of interaction on your site.
• Dive in and see the details of content interactions, including specific members' content preferences using GeoStation’s query builder.