Tales from a Mid-Lifer

More Comments About Comments

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Perhaps you read my post: Some Comments About Comments back in April. In summary, fellow bloggers comments appear in Jetpack or in the WordPress dashboard, but several are not appearing in both.

So, if I’m only using the Jetpack app for a few days, I miss your comments that are inexplicably only visible in WordPress. This week, I discovered comments in Jetpack that are not visible in WordPress.

If you follow this so far, you’ll also be interested to learn that I contacted the Happiness Engineers months ago and they determined the issue was resolved. Within hours of initiating the support, they closed the ticket. That was a first. No reply from me whether the issue was actually resolved, just the assumption that it was.

I’m frustrated by this ongoing, months-long comments issue (which I will again contact WP support about), the bizarre influx of 10-30+ spam comments per post (see screenshot below), and is it just me or did the dashboard/editor change again?

One of the main take-aways from this quick post: please know your comments are valuable and I apologize to those who receive late responses.

Thanks for reading today…if you have any suggestions or similar experiences, please share.

Are these “bots” or general spam?
Source: Pinterest

35 responses to “More Comments About Comments”

  1. Hazel Avatar
    Hazel

    I bet you turn on something for receiving that “reposted this.” I dislike receiving like that, and thankfully, it didn’t appear in mine.

    My comments both on jetpack and WordPress are working well.

    Just my subscribe button has issues and it didn’t resolve yet

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      I hope your subscribe button is corrected soon. Thank you for sharing, Hazel. I appreciate your thoughts and I’m glad your comments are working correctly.

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      1. Hazel Avatar
        Hazel

        It’s been half a year that it didn’t resolve. I still hope it will be fixed soon. Thanks, Mama

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        1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
          Mid-Life Mama

          That’s a long time, Hazel. I’m beginning to accept that a few WP/JP glitches will remain unresolved.

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          1. Hazel Avatar
            Hazel

            It’s been a while indeed, and I think you guess it right. It will remain unresolved. It’s not always ideal to me to click many times just to follow back.

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  2. nancyb422 Avatar
    nancyb422

    I rarely work from the WordPress dashboard because it feels
    Clunky but I guess I’d better take a look once in a while for those rare comments!

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      It might be worth it to jump on even once a week. I’m nearly always on JP as well. I’d be interested to know what percentage of viewers read on WP sites vs. opening published posts directly in JP.

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  3. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    It’s interesting that this is only happening for some users and not all, Elena. I’ve had Jetpack for several years now. I just now logged in to my WordPress account and I don’t have any comments there that I hadn’t already seen in Jetpack. Another is comments going to spam folder. Another blogger recently commented about this. I checked my spam folder and there were none. Maybe other users get more comments overall than I do. I really don’t know what it is. Sorry this is happening to you.

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      You are one of the few lucky ones to have zero WP/JP issues. Many write about various technical glitches. I check spam regularly but this is something else. And you are correct about specific WP accounts/comments landing in one view more than others. I looked for a pattern but it doesn’t exist. That would be too easy to troubleshoot😄.

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  4. Veselin Avatar
    Veselin

    The ones you see are from the Fediverse reposts. Fediverse is an open social network, something like non-commercial Facebook.

    For whatever reason, the reposts, likes, and comments on Fediverse are added to your blog as comments. Most of these are indications that your post was auto-added to a tag on Mastodon, essentially zero usefulness.

    At the same time, very few social networks allow auto-sharing, Fediverse and Bluesky, despite being very tiny, compared to Facebook, still provide real human views, likes, and comments.

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      Interesting about Fediverse. While attempting to problem solve this issue again a few days ago, I disabled Fediverse. I had enabled it a few months ago thinking it would be useful. Thank you for confirming where those reposts were originating from and for your helpful comments.

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  5. balladeer Avatar
    balladeer

    I will make sure to look out for this.

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      Good to check periodically.

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  6. Jacqui Murray Avatar
    Jacqui Murray

    I have one WP.org blog that will usually (not always) post reader comments but never my replies. I have to do that through ‘Comments’. I have occasional problems commenting on WP.org blogs.

    Argh.

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      Hmmmm. Thats an interesting observation about the .org blogs. Thank you for sharing. I agree…argh!

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      1. Jacqui Murray Avatar
        Jacqui Murray

        My WP.coms almost always work. I have two of those.

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        1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
          Mid-Life Mama

          Thank you, Jacqui. This was helpful.

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  7. Willie Torres Jr. Avatar
    Willie Torres Jr.

    Wishing you patience as you work through it, and may everything be sorted out smoothly.

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      Yes, Willie…the virtue that requires continuous practice and prayer! Thank you.

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  8. utesmile Avatar
    utesmile

    I use the desktop and I prefer it. The jetpack on the phone is harder for me- it’s smaller. I can type faster on the real keyboard.

    I use the phone thoug to read comments in between.

    Your post explains why I missed some comments too. Thanks for this.

    Have a lovely day!

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      Glad to know you caught some new comments. It’s good to check both periodically. Wishing you a lovely day as well!

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  9. Phil Strawn Avatar
    Phil Strawn

    I’ve had many run-ins with the happy engineers, and they can never seem to get it fixed, or right. WP relay’s on AI to a point of why the real people are even needed. I don’t use the Jetpack on my phone, just my laptop and I get most of the comments except for the ones put into spam.

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      Thanks, Phil. I try to bypass their AI but I’m not always successful. Since you and most others are seeing comments in both locations, I wonder what the disconnect is on my end. Both apps and the dashboard have been updated and after the abrupt closed ticket, I’m not sure it’s worth it to reach out again to the happiness engineers🤔.

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      1. Phil Strawn Avatar
        Phil Strawn

        It’s that AI Demon working it’s magic on us. I use and iPhone so that may have an effect. I still get your post on my laptop via WP and Jetpack.

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        1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
          Mid-Life Mama

          Thank you for letting me know, Phil. I appreciate it.

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  10. lghiggins Avatar
    lghiggins

    I don’t use Jetpak so I haven’t experienced this issue. I have problems with being unable to “Like” comments (even on my own blog). The issue comes and goes. The happiness engineers eventually “fixed” it, but then it came back. I have given up on that.

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      Interesting that not using Jetpack and sticking with WordPress you still experience issues, particularly with liking comments. There is frustration with finally having what seems to be a resolution only to discover it comes back as you said.

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  11. Lynette d'Arty-Cross Avatar
    Lynette d’Arty-Cross

    Some of my regular commenters (one of them in particular) keep going into spam which is really annoying. Sorry to hear about your issues. The Happiness Engineers are often anything but.

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      Somewhat similar, one of my regular commenters is among the “hidden” in either WP or JP. This may be a problem that will come and go and I’ll have to monitor in both areas. lol about the engineers.

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  12. Pepper Avatar
    Pepper

    I have not noticed any missed comments but I have not been looking in both places either. Thanks for the heads up.

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      I hope this is not an issue for you.

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  13. Mama's Empty Nest Avatar
    Mama’s Empty Nest

    I’m old school I guess and don’t use Jetpack. Just see comments on the Dashboard. It seems the more WP changes things though, the worse the problems some of us have. Frustrating.

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      The time it takes to troubleshoot is another factor-whether in JP or WP. After all you went through with the photos, you understand the time. I’m considering changing my theme back to an older, free, less complicated one.

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  14. Awakening Wonders Avatar
    Awakening Wonders

    Oh my, I hope you get this resolved quickly!

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    1. Mid-Life Mama Avatar
      Mid-Life Mama

      Me too! Thank you!

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