The software seems to be acting weird. There's been a big uptick in readers whose comments get lost. If they happen to be caught in the spam filter, I can usually save them if you let me know in time, but this afternoon, the spam bucket tells me it's empty, which has never happened before.
I'm sorry for the problems, but I can't do anything about them, except to warn you to save your posts to notepad before you attempt to file them, so you won't lose your work if the software rejects your comment.
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I strongly suspect that the problems are probably linked to the new "captcha" system that beliefnet is using. As I pointed out on another thread they have all been cracked and so are pretty useless in preventing comment spam. All they do is annoy legitimate posters. If enough bloggers raised a ruckus about them maybe beliefnet could be made to see the error of their ways.
I've had three posts denied with claims the security text was wrong, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't.
After my own drawing-board return(s), I'd reminds us all, when commenting here - or anywhere - make sure by all and whatever means to copy and save until your comments clear a draft therein. Trusting overmuch in the technology, assuming sufficient remedial "patience and time" [after George Harrison], may mean an "overdraft" from scratch, "to do it right child." Hairfine exactitude in your solving the Captcha, as many have seen, is no guarantee. At least as far as the technology is programmed to think, per Wikipedia, "any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human." Would that our fiercer (presumed) human interlocutors in such precincts gave like indications in tone of such presumption - perhaps we need Closed Captchaning for the Humanity Impaired - as Beta-tested on Captcha monkeys, close enough to human for government work - "so close, so close and yet so far..." - after Valli.
As a discussion of electoral votes from my home gangblog found me in recall recoil yesterday:
aleksandreia.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/in-search-of-the-promised-landslide/#comment-7130
"The Missouri Eleven are still in a comment-pending, show-us state - much like the Crunchy-Con com-on-the-blog over which you seemed to have worried your choppers yellow half the afternoon, hit send, sweated five minutes under com-pressure, only to find - Hey Presto! - it’s been 'Held for Approval' by the Commissioner of BeliefNet Baseball and The Marquis Marq of Queens, who will, hours later if you’re lucky and with a regal gold-lamé flourish pronounce it FABulouuus!!!"
I too have had 2 post rejected due to not copying the magic numbers correctly. Very frustrating!
I would urge everyone to type their posts into a word processor and then copy and paste them into the combox. Do not depend on software that is probably not even beta-tested. I hope no one does anything so foolish as online banking!
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