I think I hate you.
There. I said it. I don’t mean to be cruel or anything, but, really, are you TRYING to drive me to drink??? I know I shouldn’t complain and all, because I know you provide a free service to many of my blog buddies, but could you please consider professional help? I’m pretty sure you’re schizophrenic. I guess it’s only fair — if you’re out of your mind, you might as well try and take the rest of us down with you.
Let’s look at all of the various painful ways you torture me when I try to enter a comment on a friendly blog.
There’s the username and password option.
Which sometimes goes through successfully, and sometimes pops up a new window and makes me enter a word verification.
Or, sometimes you cut right to the chase and let me enter it all on one screen.
But, really, WHY do I have to enter my username and password? I mean, after all, I AM logged onto YOUR google reader, can’t you figure out who I am without continuing to make me log in? Apparently, sometimes you CAN figure that out and you skip right to the word verification.
Which is sometimes more like an eye test the way you squish those letters together.
And let’s not forget this little gem.
Oh, how I hate thee, pull down window. Because you, my friend, pop up another window for the word verification. This might not be too bad, but, apparently, I have some sort of security thingy set on my computer to protect me from YOU and this little pop up never happens. You eat my comment EVERY time. Which means I can’t comment on these blogs from my main squeeze computer. (And there are an increasing number of blogs that use this window — could it be your latest upgrade?)
And let us not forget all the many little hissy fits you’ve been throwing over the past few weeks.
Only, you lie. Your service isn’t always unavailable. Sometimes the comment goes through and sometimes it doesn’t. And if I happen to miss whether the blog has comment moderation turned on (which I most certainly did miss) then I never really know IF my comment went through, DO I? Hmmmm????
The worst part of it is, Mr. Blogger, that my sweet bloggy friends might think I’m complaining about them. I assure you I AM NOT. I know you’re making THEM miserable too, what with all those untraceable comments that they get, and all.
Mr. Blogger. This is NOT Rocket Science. Perhaps you could take a page from the wordpress playbook and provide your public with a spam plugin. I know you’re trying. My bloggy friend Cathy says you have a new option. But it’s not working. C’mon — I know you can do it — I’ve stumbled across the perfect form that YOU produced.
See??? Was that so hard? All I had to do was type in my comment and hit publish. No signing in. No word verification. Give it Your Best Shot!
XOXO,
Anna
Dear Mom,
Thanks for not naming me Blogger.
Thimbleanna just posted an entire post about hating blogger.
It’s true.
Love it!!
It’s just random craziness. Makes no sense whatsoever.
And my all time favorite…it doesn’t give you a verification word and then spits back the comment and your whole name/password etc and you have to start over!
Agree wholeheartedly! Also, with WordPress, there is never a problem of “No Reply” since a commenter just needs to put in their name and email address. With Blogger it isn’t enough to have a Google account for email, etc. You HAVE to set up a blog in order to leave comments that show the blog your email address.
I hear ya! It’s particularly painful when I’m on the iPad and try to leave a comment. I have word verification on my comments simply because I was getting stupid spam in foreign languages that I couldn’t understand.
When I started my blog, I didn’t know there were choices in programs. In a moment of mad bravery, I just clicked on the top, right-hand corner where it said “Create Blog”. But now that I’m familiar with it, I don’t think I have the courage to change. Old dog, new tricks, you know.
Good comments. I believe you have to be signed into your blogger account not necessarily google reader in order not to jump through hoops. At least that’s what I’ve found works for me 99.9% of the time. It is frustrating. In my case, it keeps asking me for my google account … when I try to create one I’m not accepted. It doesn’t accept my blogger account for my google account. Very confusing. That’s technology my 9yr old GS says and then laughs.
i agree… if I am google reader why do I HAVE to sign into blogger to get autofills??? i was just complaining to tech support/shipping dept/huzbin about this tonight
What a totally painful experience. I haven’t had even half the trouble that you’ve had but it’s definitely painful. Thanks for you perserverance when leaving all of your sweet, kind, and thoughtful comments. I LOVE Every Single ONE of THEM!!!!
I’m am so with you gal…
Totally agree!! And how many times do I enter their fake word & it doesn’t go? I don’t know if it’s me & I can’t read or if it just doesn’t like me. Ugh.
LOL too funny!!
Here, here!
lately I can’t leave comments on Typepad blogs – grrrrr!
Too funny, but so true.
I always thought these differences in pop-up screens and word verifications are coming from the way bloggers have set their settings?
I’m with you, I love WordPress!
I have to admit I’ve never had any of these problems – touch wood . Does my blog cause you trouble? The only thing that bothers me is that a couple of blogs make me sign in using Typepad before I can leave a comment
Oh Anna I have exactly the same problems, and when I try and leave comments on someone’s blog it brings up the word verfication blank and then I have to fill in my details again and then the word verification reappears with the actual letters, so frustrating. Hopefully blogger will read your post and know how we all feel!
I have to say it’s been annoying me recently too, and I’m a longtime Blogger blogger! I am surprised they can’t/don’t sort it out. Makes me fear they might be about to do something terminal to it …
Hear Hear sister…I’m feeling your pain!
Hi Anna!
I’m so thankful that you still try to leave comments…:).
I’ve now disabled the word verification in order to make it easier (I haven’t any problems with blogger leaving comments – I only have to log in after I’ve re-booted my computer once in a while; and in 99 % I can read the letters correctly…plus I often get a giggle from the words that show up). I hope it won’t attract those evil spam-a-lots…
Hugs, Julia
P.S.: I often have thought about taking my blog to wordpress (sadly, Typepad is out of question for me) …but I couldn’t bring myself leaving my old blog behind yet…
That is funny! Do you I was completely unable to comment on typepad blogs yesterday – weird!
I use blogger and almost gave up posting because it took so long, now I use windows live writer and I really like it. I think I tried typepad and that didn’t work out to well for me. I feel like I want my blog to be around for my great grandchildren to read a little bit about me. If you are using a pay yearly service, what happens if someone doesn’t pay is it gone forever?? (Do you know Anna?) I always wish my great grandma had a blog so I could read about her…
They do that to drive us crazy I guess :0
Amen to that! Well said, and I hope Blogger is listening. :)
I never bother to enter the secret code letter things on the first time. I just leave it blank. Why? Because it is just going to make me do it again anyway!
Amen sister! You are too funny!
That 503 error thing has been driving me crackers for weeks. The latest trick it seems to be throwing up is coming up blank in the word verification box. Gaaaaaaaaah!
Anna – you are too funny! Thank you for voicing what we’ve all been grumbling about! Maybe they’ll do something about it and we can name you Queen For The Day!!!
BRAVO!!!
LOL
LOL, so true!! xoxo Clarice
You expressed very well what I have been feeling. Thanks…I hope Blogger is listening. Oh, and sometimes trying to even decifer the twisty wacky word verification is a trick in itself too…is it an i or an l or an r or a n…
Amen again, sister! Why do we have to log in every time? I do believe, though, that the word verification settings can be changed as Nicolette said in a previous post. Either way, it’s still aggravating!
Sheesh! Tell me about it. Bloomin’ thing.
I’m sorry. And don’t feel all alone, it’s been doing it to all of us, and don’t even get me started about trying to post some days. It does seems to be in a better mood the past few days though. Do you think perhaps it needs a little couch time – analyst style?
you know how i feel:
frustrated!
not forgiving!
furious!
thanks for this post & i hope that someone listens….this should be on you tube!
wow, I feel like a wanker for saying this, but I don’t generally have problems like this. If I’m singed into Google, then I’m good, but I do have to do the password thing….
sorry you’re frustrated GF!
I have problems all the time…and somedays, I admit, it is enough of a pain that I just view and don’t comment. I hear you, Anna. I thought I had the word verification turned off, but I just checked and I didn’t. So, I turned it off. I wonder if that happened when I updated last? Anyway, what a pain.
Hahaha. I know what you mean. I created a blogger account because at some blogs I can’t comment without one (which was pretty annoying at first, but I got over it) and I notice that I am so used to clicking 5 times and re-entering verification words and passwords (does that happen to you too? That you not only have to log in to comment, even though you are logged in at google already, but also that it doesn’t believe the password you are typing, so you have to type it twice. Always? I am sure I don’t type it wrong. It’s blogger. It’s silly) that I don’t even think about it anymore and do it without realizing how silly it is.
How silly is that? :-)
Thanks for voicing all of our frustrations!!!
STANDING OVATION!!!!!!
Hey, one thing about Blogger — some of the settings for comments are set by the blog owner. That simple form at the bottom is still available (to my knowledge) but sometimes we get spammed and so the whole log-in and word verification or comment moderation. I’d really prefer to have the Plain Jane comment form, but the stinkin’ spam!
All that said, you expressed yourself quite clearly and frankly. Well done.
Jody
Actually comment verification is up to the individual blogger…you should never have to do it on mine because I turned it OFF. If you ever do please let me know….I HATE comment verification–it’s one of my pet peeves right after blogs that play me music….drives me up a wall. I’ve had spam comments maybe two or three times and it’s no biggy I just delete it…I’d rather do that once in awhile then make people go through comment verification hell lol!! These old eyes of mine can’t always make out what it wants me to type in. If it doesn’t work the first time I just don’t comment that day. I’m not sure if typepad even gives the option of turning it off…I don’t think I’ve ever been to a typepad that didn’t have it…not sure though. I’ve often thought of doing a post begging people to turn the darn thing off :) Maybe this post will make some people do that…we can only hope right?
Completely agree! I am having the issue where I have a URL not associated with Blogger, where not everyone has a Blogger account. Huge pain!
Bad, bad, Blogger. It’s not right to push people to the edge like this! Breathe. Just breathe. And if that doesn’t help, say a naughty word under your breath. It’s kind of a mini snit. Very therapeutic. You crack me up, Anna.
XOXO~Cassie
PS– LOVE my new divine twine. Thanks!
Hmmm.. Im like a questionmark.. I dont ever have a problem… weird…:O))) well ok.. just a few.. but none of above… reload page and everything works..:o)))
But I dont read in google reader .. if that is the case.Well.. i dont know.. but Im happy..:o))
That was hilarious. I’ve encountered many of the problems you highlighted. The worst word verification I have seen was on the French General site after I had made an order. It was the f-word! Really? I had to reload the page to get a new one. Did you send this to Blogger? You need to. Maybe it will spur them on to get their act together!
I hear you sister!
sorry you are having such trouble… but this post did make me laugh!
I have all kinds of other complaints with this situation but I don’t air them. I’m afraid it would be like complaining to my waiter and hoping he doesn’t spit in my food :D But it’s probably not really the same at all.
hear hear!!
I’m with you all the way… drives me mad too.
Wonderful post! This drives me bonkers too and often stops me from commenting while I try to work out is it going to be a pain or not. I then I wonder if it’s a pain to comment on my blog!
oh, i hear you! thanks for complaining for me! (since i still am trying NOT to complain. but i have thought about giving up blogging just because of their stupid new version of whatever they are doing. uploading and placing photos is a NIGHTMARE!!! don’t they know i don’t have that much useless time on my hands???? i have quilts to make! LOL!)
Comment # 53, gee, did you hit on a sore topic?!? I cannot respond to the new followers on my blog the way I did previously. And it does sign me out regularly to the same blogs, AND it doesn’t always recognize my password, what’s up with that?
Thank you.
I think of myself as a good cook and that my pot roast and chocolate cake recipes (both Natalie Dupree) were great but my husband says that the pot roast I made from your recipe is the best I have ever made. And then yesterday, I made the cake – Wow! Now I am checking out all of your recipes. Thank you. Linda
Hear, hear! You are so right – Blogger is a moody vehicle, and one which drives me mad more often than not! :) x
There are so many variations for leaving comments, it drives me bananas. I particularly don’t like the one that only lets you use your Google ID – it doesn’t provide a link back to me, so unless I put my blog’s URL in the body of the comment, no-one knows who I am. And as for that service unavailable, error 503 …. why does it always happen when you have just typed a great long comment??!!
Yep. I agree with everything you said! Blogger can be a right pain in the you know where.
So funny Anna – but so frustrating for you too! Lucy xx
So true! So true!
I hate google too. This new version makes me so mad. I can’t get on top of my first picture to write or under my last pic without trying to trick it somehow. HATE. What I need is my own website. But that would take work.
I have found that if the verification word doesn’t pop up immediately I go out and come back in. Usually it pops in the second time, sometimes third. Then I head straight for it and type it in fast or it will disappear and ask for one later! Then I comment and put in URL details etc. This is what seems to work best for me anyway.
LIke all the others I also fun the blogger options painful. And I have blogger. I did have to turn that word verification back on sadly. Ick. But I use oldschool blogger so don’t think it causes so many problems. I notice for me that sometimes the word doesn’t show up first pass. Or yeah, what’s with that comment type where you put in your google acct.. lame.
Lately everyone saying blogs are dead anyway, do you think that’s true?? I’m not sure. I do know that I am very lazy about comments..
LOL, ROFLOL and ROFLOLMAO… oh you made me laugh this morning Anna, FANTASTIC!!! toni xxx
Yes. Yes! One hundred times yes!
I mean, sheesh, I *have* to use this blog software and I still don’t like it. I’d trade over to something else but I’m afraid I’d be pink slipped ;)