29 May 2015

Problems With the Comments?

All Posts 21 Comments

At least two of you have written me lately, complaining that your comments are being consumed. (And you’re not even referring to Lord Keynes’ criticism.) Can you tell me specifically what you are experiencing, and also for how long? There was a recent maintenance action that WordPress performed, so if something was screwed up today or yesterday, it might be that.

(And yes yes, I am aware of the irony of asking people to post in the comments how they are having trouble posting in the comments.)

21 Responses to “Problems With the Comments?”

  1. Bala says:

    For over a day, any comment typed vanished without a trace the moment I hit the submit button. When I tried to resubmit any such comment, the site refused to accept it stating that it is a repeat of something already submitted. This is all I could see at my end. This problem was observed for a 2 day period starting May 26 and continued till the evening of May 28.

    Hope this is useful.

  2. Maurizio says:

    Bob, could you please switch to a view where comments are ordered by date, not nested? As it is now, I need to scan the whole list of comments each times, just to see if there is a new comment somewhere.

    Seriously, this way it is crazy.

    • Z says:

      How dare you. Nested comments are the way comments should be ordered. Anything else is a horrendous violation of everything that is moral and decent. Go F&%k yourself you 6th century barbarian.

  3. khodge says:

    No problems on my posts but I do enjoy a good “please email IT if your email isn’t working” story every now and then.

  4. Tel says:

    And yes yes, I am aware of the irony of asking people to post in the comments how they are having trouble posting in the comments.

    Bill Gates at the rifle range … shoots but no damage is visible on the target. He checks the gun, shoots again, still no damage to the target. So he points the rifle up in the air, and places his finger tip over the end of the barrel, shoots and blows the end of his finger off.

    Then shouts, “It’s leaving this end just fine, problem must be over at your side.”

  5. Tel says:

    The comments are ordered by date (descending) on the left hand side under “Recent Comments”, but the list is a bit short, only five items.

    • Anonymous says:

      The comments are threaded. They are not a flat list sorted by date, which is what is needed.

      The box on the left shows comments from any post, not the current post, and does not show the comment body.

    • Maurizio says:

      The comments are threaded. They are not a flat list sorted by date, which is what is needed.

      The box on the left shows comments from any post, not the current post, and does not show the comment body.

      • Keshav Srinivasan says:

        I personally love the threading; it lends itself really well to a parallel discussions and sub-discussions. But if you want to see if there are new comments you can use the RSS feed.

        • Maurizio says:

          Comments RSS: that will probably do. Thanks

      • Tel says:

        The comments are threaded. They are not a flat list sorted by date, which is what is needed.

        Go to the left hand side of the page (across the thin vertical grey line from where you are reading this). Then go down to the big black heading says “Recent Comments” and look at the list of five comments under that. Top comment is whatever just got posted on the blog. Comment under that is whatever comment was posted before that one. This is known as sorting by descending date/time order.

        The limitation being that it only shows five, but I’m sure it could potentially show a list of ten for example.

  6. Transformer says:

    I just posted a comment with the text “often with this email address I have a problem” that gor consumed.

    With the email address I am using here – things normally work.

  7. E. Harding says:

    I’ve asked for having dates on the comments like, three times. It’d be kind of useful knowing when a comment was posted.

  8. Harold says:

    Two of my posts with links in them have not appeared after several hours. With no links they go through fine.

  9. Harold says:

    Put some comments in the John Nash post. Upshot is if I type creativity games and put .net at the end the post does not appear. Other words with .net do appear.

  10. Harold says:

    Sorry that should be if I type creativitygames as one word. Ok, in for a penny, after this I will try games with a .net on it.

  11. Harold says:

    Here goes – games with a .net on it games.net lets see.

  12. Harold says:

    Absolute final comment here. creativitygames-dot-net does not appear. game-dot-net (games.net) does appear. creativitygames.com does appear

  13. Julien says:

    I’ve had my comment disappear the moment I submit.
    After experimentation, I found the submission works after modifying my name/mail/website. Then the comment would appear with “pending moderation”.

    Broken: full name, with gmail address and my site (http://blog.monstuff.com)
    Working: first name, with work email address and blank site

    Email me if you want the exact parameters to repro the issue.

  14. Julien says:

    I’ve had my comment disappear the moment I submit.
    After experimentation, I found the submission works after modifying my name/mail/website. Then the comment would appear with “pending moderation”.

    Broken: full name, with gmail address and my blog address
    Working: first name, with work email address and blank site

    Email me if you want the exact parameters to repro the issue.

    [Note: it looks like this comment itself didn’t post well. I’m trying again without my website in the comment]

  15. Julien says:

    From experiment above, I would say my blog address seems to be triggering some kind of filter.
    http blog monstuff com

Leave a Reply