Blog commenting

April 13, 2012

Blog commenting

Is it just me or is the combo of “prove you’re not a robot” and OpenID on blogspot.com sites difficult? I tried to leave comments on a couple blogspot sites today and it kept insisting that I didn’t read the image correctly or that OpenID had erred. Gave up on OpenID and tried to just enter my name and it again didn’t post — and didn’t even give me an error. Argh. :\

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Living 400lbs

I blog about what it’s like to be live life at about 400lbs. :)

14 responses to “Blog commenting”

Mike S.

April 13, 2012 at 1:24 pm

Don’t blame me, I’m one of the robots.

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1. Living 400lbs
  
  April 13, 2012 at 3:43 pm
  
  Hee!
  
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closetpuritan

April 13, 2012 at 3:11 pm

Yes. Last time I tried to comment on Well-Rounded Mama’s site that happened. I even tried the audio option and it didn’t work.

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1. Living 400lbs
  
  April 13, 2012 at 3:50 pm
  
  I’ve had it happen on several blogspot fat blogs :(
  
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Patsy Nevins

April 13, 2012 at 4:14 pm

I have never been able to post on a blogspot blog. I find it a very difficult system.

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1. Living 400lbs
  
  April 13, 2012 at 6:39 pm
  
  I sometimes succeed and sometimes fail. :(
  
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Katy

April 13, 2012 at 5:59 pm

Holy crap! I’m a Lurker (hi!) But when I read this I had to comment because I was literally just dealing with this like…30 minutes ago! I typed out a whole long ass comment and had to let it go because I am not very active on the interwebs. OK. Rant over. Love your blog and sorry for cursing. :( No other word accurately expressed my rage.

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1. Living 400lbs
  
  April 13, 2012 at 6:39 pm
  
  Guess what inspired this post?
  
  And it’s not any one blog. I tried to comment on several blogspot blogs today. :(
  
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wriggles

April 14, 2012 at 6:22 am

That explains a lot!

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sarah

April 14, 2012 at 6:24 am

I’ve run into this so often, not just errors, but anything that makes it complicated to comment. Sometimes It can take a lot of guts to speak up, and if even the most minor of barrier exists, it can be enough for one to say “forget it!”

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Raine

April 14, 2012 at 5:10 pm

The same thing happened to me earlier today. I tried it about 4 times then gave up because it would not recognize the letters.

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erin711

April 14, 2012 at 8:53 pm

Ugh, happens to me all the time! I hate it! I’ve tried researching why it happens, but I can’t really find any info, or it’s all too technical and even after trying all the steps, it still doesn’t work.

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nwhiker

April 15, 2012 at 10:39 am

I haven’t been able to use my livejournal OpenId on blogspot sites for a while now, it just fails. So I don’t think it’s just you.

I sometimes suspect they all want us to use facebook so they can keep track of/market to us better, so they make any other form of compatibility difficult.

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the fat nutritionist

April 16, 2012 at 8:52 am

It happens to me so often on Blogspot blogs that I mostly just don’t even comment on them anymore. OpenID has been broken for me for ages, and sometimes there’s not an anonymous or just “name and email address” option, or I would use it.

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