Problems with Blogger comments
Over the last month or two I kept coming across Blogspot blogs where I've written a comment and had it totally disappear - at first I wondered if it was awaiting moderation or just a glitch on my part, then lately I've found I couldn't even reply on my own blog to comments, so apologies if you have left a comment here and I haven't replied.
I went googling and found I'm not alone in this, (I found a post from Rurality with just this same problem and lots of her readers with similar)
It appears to be the blogs that have a little comment box under the post - which is called embedded comments.
No matter how I try to sign in to this box, with my google ID or open ID, just nothing works.
It has to be a Blogger problem and I suspect it has only recently begun to happen.
Which is why I've now switched to the full page view for comments, this seems to be the one that works best.
It would be interesting to hear if you have a Blogger blog with the embedded comments form - have the number of comments on your blog mysteriously dropped off during the past month? You might want to switch to the full page comments.
Edit: November 2009
I found another "fix" which involves allowing third party cookies on your browser -
If you are using firefox, go to tools..options..privacy.. enable third party cookies.
I was already allowing these with the option of "keep til I close Firefox", I changed my option to "keep til they expire"
I have no idea why this allows the comment box to work but apparently it does.
This was on the blogger help forum
In answer to another comment on how to change from embedded box to full page comments:
go to your dashboard...settings....comments...comment form placement...full page... and save settings
It's a bit hard to tell everyone they should change their cookie settings so they can comment on your blog, so by swapping to the full page for visitors and changing my cookies, I think the two "fixes" will work together for me, I hope it helps someone else.
(by the way I use the Firefox browser, so have no advice on how to do this with other browsers)
EDIT
24 November 2009,
as you can see from the last couple of comments, weird things are happening, a comment starts off as normal then an advertising sentence is tossed in making the comment read as total nonsense.
I have no idea if this is deliberate or accidental, I suspect deliberate as the two commenters have their profiles hidden which is suspicious to start with.
I've left the two comments in, giving them the benefit of the doubt, I may come back and delete them later, but please don't follow the links.
I'm also stopping comments on this particular post.
I think I've said all I have to say on how I got around the problem, so you guys are on your own now :))
10 comments:
For months I have been having problems with leaving a comment in the little pop-up window and now the embedded comment as well. Whenever I try, I get kicked off the 'Net. It is very frustrating not to be able to leave a comment on a persons blog because of this.
Hi Micki, well I'm glad you were able to comment here, it seems the new full page format is working - I agree it's been very frustrating
I even cannot work with my blog under ie8...with google chrome it works...?????
problems
yvette
Thanks for stopping by my blog
~nice to see you!
a test comment... I have moved over to word press...
Hey Erica,
I have been having that problem a lot lately. I have trouble leaving messages and even responding to ones left on my blog. Spending hours trying to fix it. It is the same in both IE and Firefox. How did you change your comment structure so that it works? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Hi all,
Here are a couple of problems that I've come across in a couple of the themes we are using, Blix and Tarski - both relate to commenting.
In Blix, when a comment is made on a post and submitted, it just leads to a blank page. If you press back and submit it again, Generic Cialis with this medication rebirht ur sex life. it says there is an error and this comment has already been submitted. If you then refresh the post, it shows that the comment was actually sucessful...although it is working it would seem, it's not particularly ideal!
well Calvin me laddo, I don't know if you are trying to help or just sneak in yet another chemical advert, Blix and Tarski are both themes for Wordpress, so they don't really relate to my blog...the viagra doesn't relate at all because, if my name hasn't already given it away - I'm female - and I don't need longer lasting sex because I'd have no time to read my books....
I think the subject of commenting has been done to death now, so as I added to the bottom of the post, from hereon anything even vaguely resembling advertising will be deleted
Friends I've had a hard time commenting on blogspot, I usually delete comments that are by no means justified Spam ... Maybe it's the administrator or the same blogspot ... The last time a blog comment on medicine generic sildenafil citrate and I immediately deleted the comment, is that spam is a household word but was drafted in good shape .... any help?
Niz, I have no idea how this works.
Your comment, like Calvins' comment just before you, start off as normal then an advertising message is dumped in the middle of it, making the comment read as total nonsense.
I don't know if you are doing this or it is being generated some other way, it is certainly nothing I've installed on my blog.
Also both you and Calvin have made your profiles private so there is no information on you which makes me very suspicious.
...and I also previously said I would delete further comments with ANY form of advertising, ACCIDENTAL OR NOT.
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