NOTE TO READERS: I have no control over this, wordpress.com implemented it across the board. My advice until they fix it is to make sure you are running a modern updated browser, Such as Firefox. – Anthony
from the wordpress.com blog:
Post Comments Using Twitter and Facebook
Starting today, visitors to your blog can use their Facebook or Twitter account to leave comments. This saves everyone a few steps and gives visitors control over which identity they use. It’s a win for everyone.
See the new commenting screen below:
As an important touch, we let you stay logged in to multiple services. This means you can stay logged in to Facebook for convenience, but still leave a comment through Twitter or your WordPress.com account. Just click whichever identity you’d like to use, and the selected one will be associated with your comment when it is published. You’re in control of your identity, as you should be.
Depending on your theme, you may notice the comment area looks different than before to make room for these new features. We also intelligently choose to use a light or dark visual style for the comment box, depending on the theme you are currently using.
And since you know your readers well, you can now change the text above the comment box to be whatever you like. We recommend using the default we are applying to new blogs, “What are you thinking?”, as questions often encourage more comments, but you can change it to whatever you like by going to your dashboard, then Settings → Discussion.
We know you like comments and this will help you get even more. Stay tuned for better Twitter and Facebook integration features, coming soon.
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One question I have is how does one leave a question for the group?
While considering the recent heat wave, the question came to me, is this the result of a winter or early spring weather pattern connected with a summer sun? In other words, the normal summer weather pattern would usually ameliorate the temperatures has not yet kicked in?
Is there someone in this reading public who has the answer?
How does one present such a question to the group?
It seems to work reasonably well on my home system, but as I work at a company with very strict computer security requirements, which hasn’t yet cleared any browser later then IE6 for use, at least this ensures that
I won’t be wasting any work time on making comments.
For some reason, web-based companies, and far too many web developers, have absolutely NO consideration for people with less-than-perfect vision. I’m in that business & I’ve been fighting that fight uselessly for many years.
So why can’t you people sit closer to the screen?
Please adjust the settings or ask WordPress to provide adjustable settings so that the SAME font and font size as the web site comment content. Thanks. That should be easy to adjust.
Please urge WordPress to add EDITING of the comments with a PREVIEW option. Thanks. Don’t know why they are so resistant to provide that feature.
I like Firefox. It gives me time to get a cup of coffee before it starts pestering me with results. Chrome on the other hand, just starts right up. Haven’t they ever heard that a gentleman doesn’t rise before 11 am?
John A says:
So why can’t you people sit closer to the screen?
How about being unable to focus on anything closer than 18″, for one?
Why can’t web designers design sites that can be used by people with less than perfect vision?
I’d love to post a comment on the Sarah Palin v Mike Mann
e-mail thread, but I can’t use the paste feature to lift it from
my edited file and pop it in the comment box
It weird, because my paste feature does work over
at Climate Audit.
WUWT ?
In response to the complaint I’d lodged at WordPress:
…I just received an e-mail reading:
So their “Happiness Engineer” is right on top of this.
“<a href="http://www.paranormalknowledge.com/articles/bedbug-letter.html Send him the bedbug letter,” right?
Say WHAT?
On my machine, I now have “running” comment cookies. For every WUWT article I look at there’s a wattsupwiththat-dot-com cookie with a unique identifier. Killing the tab with the article then calling the article back up in a new tab results in whatever text was in the comment box being recalled, the identifier is tied to the article. This could explain when the text remains in the comment box after a comment is posted and the page reloads, the cookie wasn’t reset or deleted.
But for sheer annoyance, as I can tell from the cookie’s content, the cookie keeps getting updated “on the fly” when the un-posted text is changed. Type a letter, the cookie gets updated. Hit backspace, updated. That’s a lot of needless hard drive use. It can also be why people have noted their machines are acting slower. I’ve also noticed erratic behavior when typing long posts. Anyone here worried about de-fragmenting their drives too often?
Also, something awful happened today. After the new “expanding comment box” was really acting up, I went to post a long comment, then WUWT stopped loading. Period. Reloading an article already in a browser tab caused a quick timeout, attempts at loading WUWT from a blank tab caused a strange endless looping where the “stop” button wasn’t usable and nothing really loaded despite lots of modem activity, the tab had to be killed to end it. Yet, anything but WUWT loaded, and WUWT worked fine with another browser.
Some hours later, after checking just about everything else, I just purged all my cookies. Then WUWT loaded again. As a bonus, the comment box was working like it used to, well-behaved and with the previously-normal scroll bar instead of the expanding box. However it went back to expanding after making a post, but otherwise it is still acting much better than it was.
If you find your comment box acting up and being very difficult to work with, try purging the wattsupwiththat-dot-com cookies, see if that helps.
I think it’s key stroke hacking. Maybe it’s the older systems which allow it to be noticed?
I have found this form to be problematic when comments exceed the default window area with text jumping out of view as I type (IE8).
Sometimes I see my last text in the “Leave a Reply” box after posting — so far, I am assuming that this does *not* indicate that I have the option to edit or modify a message after it has been posted (and moderated).
ANTHONY AND MODS
Ira Glickstein is abusing his author privileges to interfere with my posts in his discussion http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/30/skeptic-strategy-for-talking-about-global-warming/
I have lost complete posts and now he’s taken my posting box completely.
I’m not, as is obvious, having a problem with any other posting box.
As of a few minutes ago, this is now working in IE6 the way it use to 🙂