In attempting to discover the problem that is keeping perfectly respectable visitors to TPV from making comments, PG has changed a WordPress setting for the blog that requires all commenters to be registered and logged in in order to make a comment.
Since he started the blog, PG has required that a visitor register prior to commenting to help avoid runaway spam and other nastiness in the comments. It’s not a perfect solution, but it certainly helps.
So, while he has turned that off, PG requests that anyone who wants to test their ability to comment to leave one to this post. After he collects enough comments on this post for research purposes, PG will turn the registration requirement back on so only registered users can comment and invite another test to see if the simple disabling/re-enabling move did anything to help fix the issue.
As usual, PG requests no obscenity, nastiness, etc., in the comments, even in the cause of serving PG’s comment problem research.
Worked fine for me, PG. But I’ve never experienced a problem when trying to leave a comment, and I’m a registered user. I use Firefox.
Always appreciate your thoughtful take on the world. Glad to contribute to your research.
For a long time, I’ve found that your site for some reason doesn’t let me log in to comment. I can register and log in, but it’ll still insist “You must be logged in to comment.” I don’t know what’s up with that.
Welcome to the club.
I was there for weeks. It also said the email was in use if I tried to log on after that.
I almost ran out of different email addresses before I found one it accepted and worked…
…for a while.
Recently it started sending everything to moderation which quickly became old for PG. Apparently I’m not the only one.
It’s good to see familiar names popping back up.
…and hey, now login looks to be working! Yay! 🙂 Hopefully that’ll continue.
(Also, nice to see you, too, Felix!)
Commenting while logged out (filling in the blanks on the form below).
And strangely enough I still cannot comment – but I can subscribe to the comments. So at least there is that!
The comment that you cannot comment just showed up in the comments. WPDE, sigh…
Anyway, at the moment the beast seems to think that I am logged in (although it was saying I was not when the problem was first noticed). I am about to try logging out, try to comment, try to log back in, and again comment.
If I disappear… There have been some strange light in the sky this evening.
Would rather you did not disappear.
Happy to see my comments, and now I am testing for a mobile device using Safari.
Here. As near as I can tell.
MacBook Pro with Mojave and Safari in USA. Good luck!
I’m not a fan of logging in either, but can see the need.
Is there any way to fix WP’s random updates on the comments side bar? Or is that another browser-related issue? (Comments are stale in Firefox and Brave; I haven’t checked in others).
Same effect with Edge on Windows (and Android) and with Silk on FireOS.
I can “login” to WordPress, see my control panel, but as soon as I click on TPV I am no longer logged in, and can’t login to post on other threads.
This comment is just the old way to post, that does not let me access the rest of the threads.
I sent a comment earlier using the “contact” page, but it failed the first time and only accepted the second attempt.
This is typical for me for some time now. Last week I tried to create an account on the Social Security site and it gave me the same problems. They have it set up so that I can not create an account. I contacted the “Help Desk” and there was nothing they can do, so I’m just waiting for the next thing to go wrong.
Most of last week I was like Morpheus at the end of the first Matrix movie, when Morpheus sits stunned because Neo just died, and the squidies are lasering their way into the ship.
In the meantime, I’m focusing on being mellow, and I’ll make a batch of fruit bread so I can have it for breakfast.
Wait, now that it accepted my comment, I seem to be logged in, I can see other threads open up.
Does that mean I can push the Red Button, and trigger the EMP so that the squidies stop lasering the ship?
I’m so confused.
Testing to comment. I haven’t been able to comment on your blog for a couple of years, now.
From US, MacBook running MacOS Mojave and the up-to-date version of Firefox with ad blocking.
I haven’t been able to either comment or use the Contact form since your change months ago (requiring login, etc.) so I’m interested to see if this works.
I wish it was friday
I haven’t been able to comment (and have had a hard time going through the archives, if I’ve missed a day or two of posts) since the theme change. Hopefully things are fixed, now?