For whatever reason, my comments just keep on disappearing. After I write them, I get assigned a comment number, but the comment never appears on the page, not even "Your comment is in moderation" or anything like that. It's like all my comments are going directly to a spam bin or something. What's up with that?
My comments are disappearing
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GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
BlockedPosted 15 years ago # -
Welcome to the club.
Posted 15 years ago # -
watcher13
MemberGM, from what we hashed out in the past, if you don't get the moderation message, it's probably not getting through. You could try copying it and resubmitting it exactly. If you get the "you've already said that" message then you can be reasonably sure it got through and then know that's it's either getting moderated out, or is getting caught by a glitch in the spam filter. If you don't get the duplicate message, obviously, could be server congestion. Or has anything maybe made any subtle changes on your system that might be keeping you from connecting properly? I assume your still getting and able to install the downloads, so probably not.
Posted 15 years ago # -
GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
BlockedThis is odd. I post a comment with my school's computer, and it seems to get through fine. I just checked the main site and I can see that my message is in the moderation queue (the moderator must be sleeping today). So maybe my comments are not being automarked as spam. Huh.
Posted 15 years ago # -
watcher13
MemberMaybe a script issue. I highly suspect that a lot of the temporary problems people have had over the months have resulted with GOTD (naturally) changing their scripts from time to time. Are you using the same browser with the same configuration at school as you are at home? If you're using FF at home, for example, do you have any script add ons, like No Script? Since GOTD's likely using Sun Java compatible scripting, it's recently been updated. New version is 6.18.
Posted 15 years ago # -
GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
BlockedAll that differs is the one at home is 3.5.8 and the one at school is 3.6. Aside from that, except for some extensions that are not really webpage related, it's configured the same.
Posted 15 years ago # -
GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
BlockedDoes Java really matter? I don't think they are activated at anytime on GOTD.
Posted 15 years ago # -
Javascript or the Java plugin has nothing to do with the submitting comments, or the spam filter - all of this is handled serverside.
Java is clientside - so it would do stuff like stickr (that everyone loves) or voting "is this comment useful". (I haven't checked the page source - but that's what I'd guess).
If all users running the latest version of Java was a prerequisite of submitting comments - GOTD wouldn't have a lot to read each day.
Posted 15 years ago # -
GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
BlockedDifferentiation between Java and Javascript, please. Java is a full programming runtime, while Javascript is used mostly as a web scripting platform. And I agree, Java or Javascript have nothing to do with submitting comments. I think they are done with HTTP POST. Maybe the bytes aren't uploading properly?
Posted 15 years ago # -
watcher13
MemberThat's my error. Thank you both for correcting me on this issue. I imagine the only scripting involved would be if you either didn't get the submit button or clicking on it didn't do anything (or if the encoded URL was wrong, but that would disable everybody) and, obviously, you're past that point. Still, there may be a clue to investigate in what you wrote. What would cause your "form submission" (or whatever relevant routing they're using) to not go through successfully while others do? Maybe the server just doesn't like you anymore. Kidding.
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