Q:

Is it possible to make comments private on certain disqus threads?

I have some urls where I want the comments only viewable to the people with access to that page.
As it is now, these comments and users are being referenced in the Community tab as "Top Commenters" and "Top Discussions".  I want to omit any of these comments from being displayed here.  
I thought this might be manageable in the configuration variables but I don't see it yet.
https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/472098-javascript-configuration-variables

A:

There's no concept of "private" threads on Disqus at the time of this answer. However, there's a few techniques to obscure threads so they aren't as easily discovered/posted on. This is appropriate for invite/read-only discussions.

Register a new Disqus shortname: https://disqus.com/admin/register --
This keeps the threads and top users from being aggregated on your "public" section
Use this new shortname on the "private" pages of your website.
Optionally, you can turn on pre-moderation for all comments, and simply whitelist the users you don't want to be pre-moderated.

