Metapost: If your comment doesn't post tell me

With the exception of spam-bots who want everyone to click questionable links about Kim Kardashian and such, no one's comments have been intentionally kept off the blog.  I have in the past had cause to remove the comments of an actual human being (a couple of cases where people accidental posted the same comment twice, and one religious fanatic who kept on copying and pasting the same hateful violent pseudo-rhetoric) but that hasn't come up in a long time.

Any recent comments that have not posted are because something is broken.  The bad news is that there's nothing I can do to fix it.  I use Blogger's native comment engine and that gives me no control over the actual workings.  I can't troubleshoot.  The settings are such that everyone should be able to comment, that means that there's an actual error, and that's something I can't address.

But tell me anyway.

So how do you tell me that you can't comment if you can't comment?  If you were posting through a certain account* I'd like it if you'd try to comment again , this time as anonymous, just to see if the problem is that it's blocking you in general, or if it is instead blocking your means of commenting.

If that doesn't work, then email me.  [cpw (at) maine (dot) rr (dot) com]

I want two things.  First and foremost I want your comments.  If you're making comments and they're disappearing, that's bad.

The second is that I want to know precisely what is wrong.  Is it screwing up for certain people?  Is it screwing up for certain means of commenting?  What?

After I post this I'll go through the Blogger error reporting process (once I can figure out what it is again, it's been a long time since I had to do it) so they can get to work on fixing it (I hope.)

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When I go to comment my options are to do it through accounts on:
Google
LiveJournal
WordPress
TypePad
AIM
or
OpenID

Additionally I have the option of Name+Url and Anonymous.

I already know one person's OpenID comments aren't getting through, it would be a good thing to know if that's true for everyone with OpenID or not.  It would also be good to know if other methods are failing to get through.  So, if people could comment on this post with various methods (no need for much in the way of content, just say, "Posting via TypePad account" or something) to see what works and what doesn't, that would be nice.

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*  For example, it was someone's comments via OpenID disappearing into the aether that let me know something was wrong in the first place.