Comment Troubles
By: Mr. Wilson on
November 2, 2010
Blockade your blog all you want. It is simply going to reduce feedback. I won't bother myself again.I have no idea why this person didn't just email me a quick message like "Hey dude, your site won't take my comment. The error it gives me is [error]. What gives?" Some people just get their kicks from living in an irrational world where everyone is out to spite them, I suppose. Does anybody actually believe I solicit comments only to put up some sort of virtual "blockade" to forbid them? That would be a strange thing to do. Of course I'm not deliberately blockading Lincolnite from legitimate comments. However it may be true that I have unintentionally done more harm than good while trying to keep out spam. It happens. To see if that's true, I have turned off some spam-catching machinery behind the scenes. If you previously have had troubles commenting, please try now. If you haven't had troubles commenting, please try anyway. And if you never comment, please comment just to say hi. If you can't comment, drop me an email at mrwilson at lincolnite etcetera, or hit me on Twitter. You could try to catch me via Facebook, but that'll probably just get you ignored. Thanks folks, and sorry for the inconvenience (if any)! As for my emailer: passive-aggressive behavior is lame and I hope you knock it off, but I forgive you and I hope you stick around. I do sincerely apologize that you ran into troubles while commenting and I hope it didn't ruin your day.
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Hi. Seeing if this works now.
::waves::
Hi Kirk! Did it not work for you before?
In fairness to the “passive-agressive” e-mailer, I ran into the same error message a few weeks ago that I expect he or she got, and it very clearly stated that comments from my e-mail address had been specifically blocked. So it wasn’t unreasonable to conclude that action had been taken to do that.
I was wondering why none of my pro-Minnesota Vikings/Brett Favre/Randy Moss comments were going through.
I tried to use the “contact us” link at the top, but since it’s linked together, it gave me the same response… I just figured I had made someone mad 😉
Maybe I can help you out a little. I am a user and supported of the ackismet project. It is a great filter. I have found it pretty fool proof and allows you to review each one if you like before deleting it.
Hey, Mr Wilson….Have you seen Channel 8 Eyewitness News in High Def. yet???
I was the one who put the post up at SCS because I couldn’t comment. It wouldn’t let me email you or anything.
Wait, even the contact link didn’t work? Sheesh! I had no idea. Sounds like I need to fix up all sorts of things around here.
I haven’t, but thanks for the heads-up!
That’s so weird. I can’t figure out what in the filter I used would have had such a dramatic, wide-reaching effect on perfectly legitimate people.
Odd. I haven’t had any trouble posting comments. Maybe I was grandfathered in due to my overabundance of useless comments over the past few years. 😊
It drove me crazy because I was trying to win the “Where in Lincoln” game. I knew the answer and couldn’t comment! 😊
Clearly the filters I had in place were operating bass ackwards, else you would’ve been out of here ages ago.
I got blocked a couple weeks ago too. Thought I inadvertently made someone mad. Glad that wasn’t the case.
Thanks for resolving the issue! I received the same error message when I tried to post a reply, and when I tried to use the “contact me” link. Hopefully this will post and all will be ok!
Banning comments *is* passive-aggressive behavior so why the surprise when it gets dished back, even though the original P/A was in error?
Banning comments is his right as the blog owner.
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