During those rare times at home when I am not pondering library questions, I read several blogs that use Blogger, and I sometimes attempt to comment. One of my most frequently visited blogs is Romantoes, written by an old college friend who now teaches English at West Virginia University. (Oh, I am so proud of myself. I figured out how to create that hyperlink without any help!) The March 3, 2011 entry on Romantoes introduces readers to Phyllis Greene, now deceased, who began blogging at age 90. What an inspiration to all of us!
Anyway. . . when I comment on these blogs, I have varying levels of success. Sometimes it lets me post right away; sometimes I have to sign into my gmail acount (I usually use my gmail account as my "identity"); sometimes I have to type in the word verification, sometimes not; and sometimes my darn comment just sits there in the comment box and won't go anywhere or - the worst - disappears altogether. My kids play a lot of computer games, create their own blogs and web sites, and download who-knows-what, including malware, that has to be scrubbed from my computer. Therefore, I figured these problems were related to my home computer.
Today, however, I have commented on several CDLC Learners' blogs within a short time span, and I have noticed the same phenomenon with my office computer. Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas on why it is happening?
Blog owners can set restrictions on who can post immediately and who has to wait for approval from the blog owner. That may account for some of the problems.
ReplyDeleteChris was having the problem of blog comments disappearing too. She found there was a cookies setting that she had to change in her browser.
Thanks, Polly. That makes a bit of sense. After reading Chris's blog, I don't think my problem is the cookies one since I had such variable results in a 30 minute period during which I didn't change any computer settings.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shoutout, Susan! I'm enjoying reading your posts, and learning a lot myself--e.g., I've had an iGoogle page for a long time, but had no idea there was a Yo Mama joke app on there! Off to add that... :^)
ReplyDeleteRosemary - Then there's the question of how to organize your page. Right now I have my Yo Mama joke of the day directly above the Saint of the day, but I'm not sure if that is appropriate!
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