On Friday, I told you all how my comments were going to spam. Now, apparently at least in one place they aren’t even making an appearance there. As was recommended, I tried to contact Askimet to alert them of this problem, but they are “out of the office” until September 22! I’m sure you can imagine how incredibly frustrated I am.
So know this: I have tried, and will continue to try to comment on your posts. Please continue to check your spam and/or pending folders for my comments and set them loose if you find them. I am hoping that the “disappeared” comments that haven’t even made it to spam are just lagging in time somewhere. AND, AND if anyone has any suggestions as to a solution, I’d love your help.
Sorry and thank you all at once!
Oh! I feel your pain. Hoping it is resolved soon, took me about a week.
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I feel like there isn’t anything I can do until the 22nd, which is a serious load of crap. Sigh… Thanks for empathizing. 😩
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I agree completely. Where are they going that they can’t leave some one to hold down the fort and take care of business!
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Exactly! Who does that in a tech/media company! It’s ridiculous.
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so ridiculous! and frustrating. Sorry!
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Sigh… Thanks, Holly.
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Ah, just watched my comment disappear on your Long Kiss poem…
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I shall fetch it if is there…:)
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Go get ’em Doc!
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Pass me a scissors! 😡
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That’s weird and infuriating. There’s definitely something odd going on with WordPress and postings as well as comment notifications. I used to get an email whenever someone whose blog I’ve subscribed to posted a new entry. Now either they pop up in my spam folder or they don’t show up at all. Same with the comments and replies. I used to be able to rely on the inbox notifications, but now I’m forced to go into the WordPress Reader thread, which doesn’t help simply because there are bloggers in my subscription who repost or post a number of different posts a day. They’re just sort of hogging the thread there. I know it would be simpler to just go to the blogger’s site, but that’s a lot of bloggers, and I’d rather be directed to their new postings.
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Now that you mention it, I’ve noticed other weird, new things. What are they up to? I swear, they make tweaks and modifications to the platform and it just messes up a whole bunch of other features. I just can’t believe that Askimet would completely shut off their help center for a whole week. That is beyond ridiculous. And they kind of have you over a barrel. What am I going to do? Start a fresh blog somewhere else after blogging here for all this time? So frustrating.
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I was once told by a blogger that all my comments were going into her spam folder. I’m not sure how she resolved it though. The best of luck with this. 🙂
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If another blogger discovers the comments in their spam folder and approves them, it will fix the problem with their blog only. I would have to find a way to contact each blogger who I’ve commented on to ask them to check…. Thus posts like this one, hoping to draw people’s attention, so they go check. I am especially concerned about the comments I tried leaving but haven’t even gone to spam. That is especially bad.
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The question is where have they gone. This is the first time that I’ve heard of this type of problem. It’s highly unusual. At least you discovered the problem. I wonder how often it happens but goes undetected. You’ll have to let us know what you discover.
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Will do!
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Oh this spam thing is such a pain! It happened to me twice, I reached out to the happiness engineers to help me. Did you try contacting out to them?
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Not Askimet? But WordPress?
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Yea the wordpress ones…the second time it happened. I found one of your comments in my spam just now, btw.
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Ok, I’ll give that a shot. Thank you!
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So WordPress is out on holiday as well! No email support until the 23rd! They suggest going to one of the forums for help on a problem. But if the problem is not on my end the forums aren’t going to be any help, right?
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Oh bummer! The forum’s are not going to be of much help in this situation, you will need Askimet or the happiness engineers to have your details removed from spam list! Sorry!
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So far, so good, at my end of the world…
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I think one from yesterday… The hand held mirror post?
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Your comment did end up in the spam folder. So I approved and replied…
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Thank you, Don! That should fix it going forwards. At least between me and you!
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You’re welcome, Meg! I hope it is the end of the bullshit you’ve been going through…
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Probably not! I need to get the vacationing jackasses from WordPress to fix it on their end. They return on Thursday. 😡
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So much for the great IT service they are supposed to provide…
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I know!
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I feel your pain. When I had the problem awhile ago, I did contact Akismet and they said there was not a problem but within a week or so it was fine! I just check my spam every few days…
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I am stuck in spam purgatory until these jackasses get back to work on the 22nd apparently! At least once you’ve unspam end me, it let’s me comment from that point forward…
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Yes, it’s the weirdest thing! I remember Rob told me once he thought it might be the amount of comments he was making in one day triggering them to be marked as spam. Don’t know if that’s true, but maybe that’s it? You still probably have to wait for them to get back and do the form…
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That’s bizarre! I’ve been quieter because of travel. I’m alerting as many as possible that comment to me but what a PITA!
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And for no one to be available to help? Unprofessional…
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Agreed!
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Meg, these headaches with WordPress will never stop. Hopefully they repair yours soon.
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Feel better soon.
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Thanks, Alex… No relief till Thursday it seems
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I just can’t believe it would take that long. You’ve still taken it better than me. I’d be like Angry Dad from The Simpsons.
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I know, such a pain! Trust me when I do get to talk to someone I will let them know what I think of their policies!
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I can’t believe there’s no support with anyone for so long! Why the hell would they shut down completely?? They couldn’t leave a few people to cover? Give them a break later? How ridiculous. Anyway, you are all good on my blog. 🙂
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I know! it’s outrageous! I’m not the only one either. Finding out there are problems with other aspects of the blogiverse here. Anyway, as long as I get unspammed I’m ok on at least that blog.
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I would bet there are problems with every platform though. Although this bites, I have read horror stories… lol… and it seems WP is usually the most recommended… I hope as people unspam you, the system will re-learn that you’re not spam. That is what happened to me… just a few unspammed and in a few days it was all better…
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I hope so… Cake tells me no one can comment on his blog. Btw you need to go to bed! Lol! I’m boarding my plane! Talk to you soon! ❤️
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Can’t believe they would completely close shop. That makes no sense. So sorry about the frustration. Hang in there.
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Thanks, Deb. 💜
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😳😳😳😳 I passed Irritation two weeks ago.
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If it weren’t for the fact that other blogging platforms have an even worse reputation and I’d hate to have to start all over again… GRR
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Yep! It’s one reason I’ve wanted to go self-hosting for over a year. I’ve been working with their support on some transfer issues and I let them know this morning that while they are all together it would be a good time to get the Askimet side of the house to fix the bug in the spam filter. We’ll see.
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Oh good deal, Rita! Thank you!
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It’s affecting everybody and they need to fix it.
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Hopefully this is resolved for you now…it was very irritating but Alls well that ends well
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It seems to be. I understand glitches and ghosts in the machine, but what I don’t understand is why ‘everyone’ left town all at once. Certainly someone should be left to mind the store. Indeed, all’s well.
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Ghosts in the machine indeed…I am very haunted
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Have you tried an exorcism? Or perhaps turning it off and on again? 😉
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Have you ever worked in IT?
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No, but I have watched ‘The IT Crowd’ … *laughing*
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It’s a good show. And my new post, have you visited yet?
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It’s hilarious. I will go there presently. 🙂
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