Vanished Into Cyber Space March 20, 2012
Posted by nrhatch in Blogging, Humor.trackback
I’ve commented on a number of WP posts this morning. All my comments have gone missing . . .
Vanished into cyber space?
Banished from your blogs?
Dispatched into SPAM dungeons?
Swallowed by alligators or crocodiles?
If you find them loitering about somewhere, please let me know.
Post Script: Comments still missing on these blogs: Maggie, Flying G’ma, Perfecting Motherhood. There may be others I didn’t notice drift away . . .
Spirit Lights The Way 
okay, trying to reciprocate. Hope you find them.
Thanks, Tammy. There’s at least 6 that disappeared, including the one that Janna found hanging about her SPAM folder.
I found a comment of yours in my Spam folder. I have no idea what it was doing hanging around with the likes of those messages, but if you start trying to sell me Viagra, I’ll know their bad influence got to you 😆
Thanks for rescuing it, Janna . . . I do NOT want to be a Viagra salesman.
Another tip off that I’ve been corrupted . . . if I start “fawning” over every comma and period that graces your posts. 😀
Hehehe…or if you gush over how “informative my article is” (I’m not naive enough to think anything I write is anything more than brain candy!)
It was my pleasure to rescue your comment…I have had a few innocent comments sentenced to that folder lately.
I love reading some of the SPAM in my folder ~ gratuitous gushing about nothing. 😀
Seems lotta irregularities wp last few weeks
I’m wondering if the issues are related to the change in the comment box. I’ll probably have to touch base with the wizards of WP to be “un-SPAMMED.”
This happens to me infrequently. Your comments on mine from yesterday stuck, though.
Yes, yesterday WP recognized me as a “valuable contributor” to the comment threads.
This morning, it relegated me to the “no comments from the peanut gallery” section. 😀
Sometimes I don’t get notified of comments and then I don’t respond. Because I have to limit my time on WP–or try to–I don’t look back at my posts to see if there are comments.
I have noticed that replies to my comments on posts of other blogs rarely show up on my notification thingie. This bothers me some because there are times when a reply to the reply would be nice and again I don’t have time to go back to old posts.
You might check your settings, Patricia. You can ask for an e-mail every time someone comments on (or likes . . . yikes!) one of your posts.
This reply response to my reply has not shown up in my notifications. If I got emails for comments would be it just for comments I have made–for example on your blog?. Or would I get an email every time someone posted a comment on your blog? That would be a lot of email!
If you ask for follow-up comments via email on someone else’s blog post . . . you get an e-mail notification for every comment on that post UNTIL you unsubscribe from the thread which is easy to do.
Dashboard -> Blogs I Follow -> Comments -> “Delete” under each comment you no longer want to follow.
On your own blog ~ you can go into settings and click “e-mail me whenever anyone posts a comment.”
Nancy, I checked and there were only 3 SPAM mails offering me products. I notice that every so often mail, not from you but from other WP bloggers gets caught in my spam mail. Wonder if the spam filters picks up on the title or the like and thinks it’s spam? I notice in my Facebook fan page if someone enters only a heart icon in the comments field, the page asks me to approve the comment as it considers it spam.
If we do a series of identifcal comments (e.g., “great post”) in quick succession, we might be isolated as SPAM . . . but every comment I tried to post this morning was different.
So, I don’t know what triggered the cyber police to arrest my comments and toss them in the SPAMMER SLAMMER. 😆
I’m guessing they are going into people’s spam folders for some weird reason. Checked mine the other day and found a number from arignagardener whose blog I follow and who has commented on mine in the past. Gremlins are afoot methinks.
It might have to do with the changes in the comment sign in . . . I had no problem yesterday.
I’m hoping to hear back from WP Support soon, so I can resume posting comments. In the meantime, I’m in a “Cyber Holding Pattern.” 🙄
WordPress has been whacking out lately.
I never expected to get tossed into the SPAMMER SLAMMER by the Cyber Police . . . I’m INNOCENT! 😯
I picked up three subscribers the other day and a couple of “likes,” but my stats page said “0 views.”
The internets are weird.
That is very ODD . . . obviously the page counter fell asleep with his/her clicker.
When they snooze . . . we lose. 😉
It’s all part of my quest to be the most well-known blogger no one reads!
(Kind of like Joan Armatrading but with a laptop instead of an acoustic guitar).
😉
Well . . . there ya go! I listen to Joan on the guitar and you on your laptop. Small world . . . 😉
You have exclusive tastes. What can I say?
I’ve heard something weird is going on with WP, something about them changing how you comment, I hope whatever it is, gets sorted soon.
WP changed the sign in procedure for leaving comments ~ requiring either a WP or Gravatar log in.
But I was logged into WP when my comments went missing.
oh how spooky, well, your comment about my Julian post is there so at least one found its way home 🙂
The problem started this morning. I guess with the war on SPAM . . . one is “guilty until proven innocent.” 😉
My comments have not vanished that I have noticed but I have had trouble commenting and WordPress can’t decide if I an sweetdaysundertheoaks or Pix at Under the Oaks so my comments keep having to be moderated where I was ok before. My stats are always wonky!
Your comments have posted on SLTW without requiring moderation . . . maybe WP knows that I know you. 😉
Well and now that I see your reply to my comment on your blog I am happy again because my notification button was wonky and wasn’t notifying me of replies! I seriously like the notification button 🙂 It’s those small things that can make my day!
Same here, Pix. Cyber space can be a strange place . . . but certain links add to the sense of connection and community.
Nancy this is Sooo frustrating when this happens…ever since all my comments were relegated to SPAM, I regulary check my SPAM box. It’s amazing what you discover in there!
How did you fix the problem, PiP? Did WP Support have to do something . . . or did you fix it by yourself?
I have an e-mail into WP Support . . . but sounds like they are swamped with issues at the moment. So if I can fix it on my own, that would be GREAT.
I was referred to Akismet who deal with the SPAM. They dealt with and very promptly. Would you like me to see if I still have their email address?
Yes, please. 😀
support@akismet.com
I just stated my problem and my comments were going straight to SPAM and they tweaked it their end. So far so good.
Thanks, PiP!
I just sent Akismet a missive about the problem. Fingers crossed they’ll be able to wave their magic wand and fix it.
There are definitely gremlins in the WP machine at the mo, Nancy. I hope you find those comments soon!
Kate, I left three comments on your post about Felix’s elephant on your bookcase ~ the original and 2 “test” comments. Please let me know if you find them in your SPAM folder.
Will just pop and check 🙂
I hope you find them . . . and they are to your liking. 😀
That’s really wild! Hope your comments come flying back home with the proverbial olive branch in their mouths!
Land Ho! 😀
I got yours: You are a genius Greg! Remember that? Ha.
I recall using precisely those words . . . about your gardening genius. 😀
Hi Nancy,
I always forget to check my spam folder…usually there is nothing in it…when there is, sometimes the comments are in a different language…so hilarious! The internet can be mysterious, that’s for sure.:)
I check my SPAM folder on a daily basis . . . deleting real SPAM (often with a chuckle or two) and releasing friends.
I just found it in Spam, have approved it!
Thanks, Vix. That should resolve the issue on your blog . . . for now, anyway.
Hi NR…in my spam box too….and I had to approve you again????
That should solve the problem on your blog, Granny. Once released from cybergatory on a blog . . . I’ve been able to resume normal commenting on that blog.
So far no sign of them. Did you look under the bed?
No . . . the dust bunnies scared me away. 😉
That sucks when it happens… 😦
I prefer NOT being relegated to the “no comments from the peanut gallery” section. 😆
So that makes you, Elizabeth, Pip (PigletinPortugal) and Jo (the AussieKiwi). You are a special group!
We ARE special! Glad to see the tail end of the problem. 😀
thanks for this post. i have been out of town, and i have found two of your comments making themselves far too comfortable in my spam box during my absence. they are now in their rightful place, so all is well.
very odd, that. anyhow, Happy Blogging once again 🙂
Thanks for resurrecting them, Kris! It’s good to be out of the “penalty box.” 😉
I’ve been having the same problem of late. Every now and then I’ll stop at a Word Press blog to leave a comment to see if it’s accepted. A lot of the time it’s not. Thought I’d try it on this post.
Lee
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