Taking a page from the fine onionskin paper, leather-bound book of Jazz, I too would like to take a moment to indict the pissy attitude of the Blogger people and to apologize to the proprietors of some favorite blogs for having left no comments of late.
I have left no comment due to the fact that Blogger, which has a propensity to not play nicely in the blogsphere playground, is up to its old tricks.
If you are a subscriber to Blogger and your comment area does not ask for word verification, then we’re laughing and I can come in – as the bishop said to the actress – but if you are looking for WV, we’re hooped.
What happens is I fastidiously and painstakingly type in the letters being sought and I then get a message telling me they are ‘wrong’. I can follow this process 5, 10 or even 2,346 times, and they will persistently tell me they do not work. In a horse’s patoot, as Archie Bunker used to say. They just don’t want me, as a WordPress renegade, to have access to your blog in terms of comment.
Well, I’ll tell Blogger why I switched to WordPress. I switched because a few years ago you screwed me around completely. For reasons best known to you (though never to me) you quite simply froze access to my Blogger blog. A nice blog it was, too. So, confused and angered, I switched over to the WordPress folks and am happy as the proverbial with them.
After stifling my Blogger blog for six full months, suddenly with no reason given, it was again accessible. Well, sorry. I’d moved on. In the words of Carole King: “It’s too late, baby, now it’s too late. Too late for us to make it …”
I hope they drop their word verification BS, in which case I shall return and leave comment.
I wish I had an onionskin leather bound book, but the blog will have to do (though it’s seeing very little action these days, poor neglected thing).
Mine too is feeling neglected. I don’t think anybody likes me any more.
Yep! I’ve been getting that run-around from a lot of Blogger sites, too.
However, as I still have a Blogger presence elsewhere I am able to comment as my Google persona.
Sites with owner-moderation seem OK. Go figure!
Yes, I sometimes think I should go and post on my old blog that still is accessed via Google. But that’d confuse the hell out of people
I haven’t been able to comment on Pearl’s site for a -long- time; I thought it was me. On the other hand, I -could- make an onionskin leather bound book using medieval techniques. Hey, one finds one’s successes where one can!
I had problems with Pearl’s for a while, too. And then she changed something and it now works OK. If you haven’t tried lately, Linda, you might want to check again.
I hate WV. What really gets me is people that have WV AND comment moderation. Why would you need both? It only takes me a second to delete a spam comment.
Yeah, that’s my problem, too. I mean, WTF with word verification. I agree; delete the spam and move on.
I hate WV. Most of my comments are simply not worth going through the aggravation of getting the weird letter combinations right. Then to be told my comment must await approval from the blog owner, well, that just boils me.
I still like you. Read you all the time. Sometimes very quietly.
And I read you all the time, too, although like you, sometimes quietly. And as for WV, why don’t people lose the idea? It in no way protects them and it’s just an incovenience.