Blog glitch
Some people are experiencing a glitch in the autofill for the comments, a very odd one: the autofill is filling in other commenters’ information.
If you want to keep your email addresses secret until this glitch clears up, just put in a fake email for the duration. You will still be able to comment.
I have no idea why this is happening, but I will look into it. It seems to be somewhat related to a glitch of several months ago, where comments weren’t showing. That happened to me once today as well, and my newer posts haven’t show up right away either.
My apologies for the inconvenience. I will be working on fixing it ASAP. It’s very frustrating to me, too. If the blog goes down for any amount of time, go to my old site for further information and postings. Note that URL down if you don’t already have it: http://neo-neocon.blogspot.com .
testing
More testing.
Testing. From coffee shop.
Tasting from the deli.
neo: How do you fix this stuff? Is it mostly a matter of banging on WordPress support?
Testing to see if this will show up.
Huxley:
Unfortunately, WordPress support is just a forum, and very unresponsive.
Usually it’s the host that helps. Or a friend.
Ok, here goes.
More testing. Isn’t this fun?
Sure enough, somebody else’s user name and email address are showing in my autofill box. How weird.
Sure enough, somebody else’s username and email address were showing when I first scrolled down to the comment box. (Not a username I recognized, by the way). I manually changed the info back to my own, but used a different email address than the one I usually use, and posted a comment — which hasn’t shown up yet. Maybe it won’t. Very weird. After that, my normal username and email address reappeared on their own. Wonder if this comment will appear?
Keep swinging Neo…that dragon ain’t dead yet… ‘cos now I think I’ve just been given your Yahoo address & I’m pretty sure you don’t want us having your Yahoo address.
I’m happy to forget I ever saw it…I may be cranky at times but nefarious never.
That is bizarre. I could never have my own blog because this kind of stuff would drive me mad.
I was seeing a Yahoo address also like ‘anonymess’ said.
Testing
Mrs. Whatsit autofilled
Somebody elses e-mail
But I’m really Ed Bonderenka
It’s like some sort of French farce.
An unfunny one.
That’s not my email address you’re seeing, by the way. Another weird glitch.
Griffin:
I think it’s already driven me mad.
Hmm…now I’m Mrs Whatsit.
It’s hard for me to imagine how one fixes a bug like this at the blogger level.
Flush caches? Restore possibly corrupt databases? Reboot servers? Wait for WordPress its rollback its most recent changes?
It doesn’t seem the sort of thing to be fixed by changing dashboard settings.
Neo,
The Yahoo email I was seeing had Kaufman in it so that was what made me wonder if it was yours.
Once I commented and used a made up email it seems to be OK for me.
I think I want to be Griffin now…seems a fairly clever resident around these parts.
But ultimately I’d like to be me again.
I’m pulling for you Neo…Yes. You. Can!
This is a weird bit of cyber fun..
I’m having the internet version of multiple personality disorder. These comments aren’t all by me. Or are they? I’m so confused.
I seem to be huxley at the moment.
Though I suppose that could change. I hope it’s all working out.
As a tech guy, I am curious what made the difference.
testing
Hello
A quite wonderful digital disorder.
For a brief moment I was Sgt. Mom, now I’m back to being huxley, another erroneous honor. Digital transgender!
Yes, let’s put our 100% trust, our lives, our futures into the digital realm.
We’ll see how this posts.
Mercury is retrograde until May 3. Communications mix ups.
In retrospect, it cracks me up that even though we probably all saw only the same couple of thread comments – before finding out that there were many more posted up that had been theretofore invisible – that the ‘Je Suis Charlie’ theme or a variant, apparently popped independently into so many different heads once the false-name posting problem became obvious to a particular commenter.
Same phenomenon, same reaction.
I’ll think twice before delivering an obvious quip next time.
Those who held their fire will be patting themselves on the back about now.
I saw the false name/email address once on my tablet (Kindle Fire). I hit refresh and it disappeared. I’m on my laptop now and I am getting blank fields. We’ll see what appears after I post this comment.
Oh well, a previous comment hasn’t shown up but neither did someone else’s name & email. But, I did put in a bad email address. Here is try #2
April 25th Test
My sense of identity is somewhat shaken as a result of all of these people reporting that they are, at least temporarily, me. Meanwhile, as of 4/25, my own autofill spaces are showing up blank. I filled them in with a fake email address and we’ll see what happens once I post this.