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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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 […]
14 responses to “Blog commenting”
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Don’t blame me, I’m one of the robots.
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Hee!
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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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I’ve had it happen on several blogspot fat blogs :(
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I have never been able to post on a blogspot blog. I find it a very difficult system.
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I sometimes succeed and sometimes fail. :(
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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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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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That explains a lot!
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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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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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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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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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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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