In visiting blogs on my list
I’ve commented, hand over fist,
But every comment will not stay,
And fades away, try as I may.
In fury, reproduced each gem,
And then again reposted them;
The loss was really such a pity –
Some bits I wrote I thought quite witty!
Each time, they just refused to ‘take’;
So copies I began to make –
Ensuring they’d not go to waste,
I tried again by using ‘paste’.
Still, every time, all that I’d see
Was blank where comment ought to be;
The comments have all gone on strike –
All I can do, for now, is ‘Like’!
A change of platform did no good
(I didn’t really think it would);
The self-same thing was taking place:
My comments vanished without trace!
So now it has become my guess
The fault is lying with WordPress;
I note no recent comments show,
Which is another sorry blow!
© Colonialist November 2013 (WordPress)
Colonialist's Blog 
Very good. A blogging anthem.
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And there was me thinking it was my lack of opposable thumbs that was making it impossible to leave comments 🙂
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You seem to have had no difficulty with this one!
I am still battling on other blogs.
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it’s a cat thing
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No rhyme or reason to WordPress
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No reason, true, most of the time –
but they’ve me to thank for lots of rhyme!
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And that ain’t no crime!
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No: with my motivation prime,
They are a touch of the sublime!
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Write a ditty in haste and fear not for the word ye may waste!
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What? All my comments that I give
have all disappeared down the seive
this is bad, it cannot be
WordPress must put it right, you see.
it is their job..it must be done
Otherwise it will spoil our fun
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This is truly what’s afoot –
And so poetically put!
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yesterday, blogs that I visit and have commented on in the past, all of a sudden, had no place for comments. Gremlins are afoot in WP methinks. Perhaps we can send through some supersonic galactic lightning bolt to reset things the way they ought to be!!
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It would be nice to fiizzle the tailfeathers of whoever caused it!
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definitely.
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Your tragedy could so easily become another;’s – and I fear for myself, as I will never be able to right such a great wrong…I trust you’ll let us know poetically or otherwise, how you remedy this great injustice… the rest of us may need to know at some stage !!!
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It would seem possible that for some utterly unknown reason all of my comments are winding up in Spam all of a sudden.
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I can only say ALAS loudly …
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From going into history, it seems that Akismet must have been carrying out another anti-Spam manoeuvre, and have overdone it.
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Yes this new platform is downright unpleasant
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I hope it doesn’t just corn-tin-you like this!
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I cannot believe you made this into a poem. What sort of genius are you? I would love to see a post with just the comments you make around the interwebs. That would be a masterpiece!
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*bright scarlet blush*
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Had that problem once long ago,
Can’t remember what I did,
but now my comment all do show.
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The empathy’s all very well –
Wish, how to fix it, you could tell!
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You should take it personally, perhaps you upset someone in WP admin.
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Or I trippped over a goblin by mistake …
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Fun poem, Col.
Hope the situation resolves soon.
It has happened to me a time or two.
And it gets OLD fast.
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I hope so, too. It is most frustrating having one’s brilliant observations fizzle out into vapour.
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Great poem….full of fun and frustration.
I had exactly the same problem yesterday….I gave up
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Ah, so I am not the only one picked on? Why hasn’t it come right for ME, though? *mutter, mutter*
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Your poem cracked me up! I had the same problem, until I switched browsers. For some reason, Firefox eats my comments on people’s blogs. Google is fine, though. And this comment is the evidence!
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I tried the different browser thing, but that didn’t help either. Akismet seems convinced that I am a Spam site.
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This sounds like a problem I experienced a few months ago, Col… all comments I’d make would vanish. They’d actually go into the spam folder of the blog I was commenting on. Terrible experience. Good poem though!
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This appears to be exactly what is happening to me.
Hopefully it will sort out once enough people un-spam me … that is, if they check their spam folders.
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The blososphere made you invisible! I’ve had days like that; I blame it on wordpress…
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From a spot of research, it seems that an Akismet adjustment is probably to blame …
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Is there some space/time continuum hiccup that ensures you fail to see what is really there all the time? Your comments arrive on my blog, thank you.
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No, they don’t! Not the latest, anyway. Please look in your Spam folder and un-spam me!
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I look in my Spam every morning, and found 3 from you! Duly liberated. What did you do to deserve that?
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Who knows? But it now seems that enough people have unspammed me for my banning order to have been lifted again. Thanks!
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Was,up Mr. N?
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Comments down the drain, Mr. P!
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What’s causing it?
You been swearing at people again?
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It appears, after some research, that Akismet must have been fiddling with their spam blockers, and have caught some people who should not have been.
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Sounds like you’ve become the invisible commentator 😉
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Indeed. A comment I just added to your blog has come up as ‘successful’ – except that it doesn’t seem to be there!
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II had this wonderful, touching, drama-infused response all typed up, but then I said to myself:
“Self, if you add your comment, you’d just be showing off your good fortune of being able to comment, thus making the guy feel even worse than he already does.”
So I posted this, instead.
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Your kind consideration brings tears to my eyes.
I can comment here, but doubtless when I go to your post the same dismal failure will occur …
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An unfortunate situation but a great poem.
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Well, I can see you are having no problem in commenting!
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That’s good news. Hope the problem is rectified soon.
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Nope. My comment on your blog dismally failed to appear:
I wonder if this comment will take? Worth another try.
Most interesting. I’m hoping Amazon will keep momentum, seeing that I have recently put most of my books there.
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This comment appeared. Thank you for trying to leave a comment on my blog. Amazon should keep up the momentum for the foreseeable future at least. Good luck with your books.
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Thanks! To add to my complete bewilderment, a comment I have just put on ‘disperser’ was successful.
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