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Feb022011
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Commenting problems
Feb 2, 2011 Blogs Josh emails to say he is getting captchas every time he comments. Is this true for everyone? How much of a problem is it?
Update on Feb 2, 2011 by
Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill
OK, I now know that the captchas are new functionality. Hmm...might have been better if someone at Squarespace had let me know.
I gather some people have also had error messages. If so, can you let me know the message, when it occurs, and your browser and OS.
Ta
Reader Comments (35)
Yes, almost every time. But it's not a problem.
g d o m k x
Yep, but I assumed I was in the dog house for intemperate posting :-) It only used to happen when I included a link.
Yes.
x g t h j e w k
yes, today...and many days. yesterday, I was getting some errors using blockquote
I agree with Martin A.
m s n e c m
Annoying, but the #($*#@&& Server Timeouts are a bigger problem.
Don Pablo
I was getting those server timeouts when I was using blockquote.
Yes, captchas everytime. I thought it was intentional.
Me too
Kevin
I was getting those server timeouts when I was using blockquote.
That may well be what has been doing it to me as well. I will keep an eye out for it.
Indeed I will try it now
Nope, it preview nicely. Maybe it is the phase of the moon. More likely taking a longer time to submit.
no big deal.
kuefw
Yes.
Mentioned it a while back on another thread.
PITA actually. Great if you can get shot of it but if not, I'll survive ;-)
Yes on the captchas. Was getting timeouts too, but this is not specifically a blockquote problem
Personally, the captchas are no big deal.
Me too.
And me, been happening for the last few days
Try this in blockquotes. it may not be the blockquote, but something in this copy and paste within a blockquote
Yes, every time for the last few days.
I just assumed you were trying to avoid the spammers. It's not a problem.
This time as well!
Can the captcha be modified so that you always have to type things that will make cultists puke?
Eg
D E L L E R S R U L E S
D O N T H I D E T H E D E C L I N E
M O N B I O T F L I E S T O H I S V I L L A
T H E R E W A S C O N S E N S U S A B O U T L E E C H E S T O O
- that sort of thing?
Get them all the time too.
Half the time I can't post at the moment. I get as far as the captcha thing, submit my comment and it fires back an error.
My confidence in successfully posting this is low.
One minor amendment to J4R's excellent proposal:
print the sceptical captcha under the name of the commenter in the comment itself. Trolls might then think twice before clicking 'Create Post'.
Squarespace keeps reporting errors - the black screen of death. I think someone is trying to shut you up....
Time to move to Blogger with Steve and Anthony ?
Can someone who is seeing these errors please tell me what browser and version they are using. Squarespace say they have programmers waiting to go!!
Steve and Anthony are Wordpress.
The captcha serves a good function. It forces a preview.
I am on mobile internet with "3" and if this comes through, no problem here.
g r n a r by the way
I am on mobile internet with "3" and if this comes through, no problem here.
g r n a r by the way
Happened a lot. Been interstate in Oz using an i-phone (Android). Thought that was the problem because my Author and Author email details were not remembered and I had to one finger them in. Gave up after 10 attempts. But as with DP de la S the time outs on my home computer (Windows XP) are the biggest nuisance.
Last one sent from home computer obviously OK. vqxmo
Windows Vista Home/Chrome (up to date version)
Tried adding this to the latest post but am getting this - circumstances described, but can't post on that thread at all...
I can further report that if I make a post, preview, make changes, I (just) got this:
This web page is not available.
The web page at http://www.bishop-hill.net/process/CreateJournalEntryComment?moduleId=902845&entryId=10336294 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
More information on this error
Below is the original error message
Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.
I've had to kill my browser and start again. Still not working.
All
To avoid server timeouts, do not compose comments directly in the comments box. Do it in an off-line text editor (Word or whatever you fancy), then paste in.
No timeout worries and your own copy if Squarespace blips and loses the comment.
Works for me.
I get them every time as well - but it isn't a problem.
In fact, I thought this has been installed on purpose, to avoid spamming and robots?
Just had "Page Not Found
The page /process/CreateJournalEntryComment could not be located on this website.
We recommend using the navigation bar to get back on track within our site. If you feel you have reached this page in error, please contact a site operator. Thank you!
Return to the Front Page »"
when posting a comment
Anigel
Could you please give me your browser details
Thanks
This is a Test