Sticky post: the comment problem

In an effort to solve the problems that some readers are having while commenting, I've made this a sticky post to (hopefully) allow us enough time to get to the bottom of an increasingly annoying situation that leaves many of our readers unable to comment at all. My apologies for the delay, I've been poorly.

This post will stay on top until October 9th. Please note that newer posts will appear below it.

According to Paul, my likely response when told that readers have hit a problem, is to blame Google. That's true though there's likely to be a lot of swearing involved too, as almost every problem that has affected readers/commenters have been because Google has changed how a setting worked or just deleted a setting for no obvious reason.

This has been a cause of much irritation for years, as witness the problems here as well as on my last blog, Lancaster Unity.

Any problen then, is generally solved by digging around in the settings, then cursing Google for twenty minutes for turning a trivial setting into an unnecessary disaster. This is, I think, what has happened in David's case where he tried to comment on one of Paul's other blogs. When he hit Post the comment diappeared.

In a post recently, David pointed out 'I tested several of the other blogs as well. Trying to Publish or even Preview my comment instead erases it.'

The problem I now face is to find the appropiate setting and change it. There are, sadly, thousands of them. To find the cause, I need information. Anything then, that irritates you, the reader, or that leads to an unexpected outcome, like David's pretty enormous snag, should be reported and hopefully dealt with. If it isn't, feel free to curse Google, too. They can take it.

If there's anything you want to say, please comment. Hopefully, it'll work.