There appears to be a problem with commenting on the blog. If you try to comment anonymously – which you can do by not entering an email address, or a user name, you will be greeted with the following error message:
‘That email address is associated with an existing wordpress account, please log in to use it’
I am working on getting this resolved as quickly as possible. Please bear with me while I try to get it sorted. Posting a comment on My Nintendo News now only works if you enter a username and email address. If your email address isn’t working when commenting, then feel free to make one up and it should work.
Thanks,
Sickr
Fuck yeah no more trolls
Actually I thought in that at first glance, but not be able to post anonymously won’t let active real fans to post either and that’s a shame. Anyway, you can log with a Facebook account, many trolls do it as well so I don’t know what to think
All you have to do is enter an email account to comment. And if he prevents people from posting anonymously, banning trolls would be easier. Although some would use random words for email accounts that probably exist.
thats especially for u anonymous with no email or soap!!! eat this!
what’s WordPress? n_n for some reason i had to use a different email because i can’t use the one with my gravatar
Fuck u peteriuss man.
interesting
so you have to have a account to use for comments correct mii if im wrong.
Actually would make the site a bit better O.o
Ditto. Maybe Sickr should leave it as is lol.
I have a email and a username but am still getting the error message, currently trying with another email
it worked with the different email, btw when i enter my real email the avatar i chose doesnt show up, its a random one instead
Have you added this new e-mail to your Gravatar account?? If not that’s the reason.
Anyone else having problems commenting when they put in their username and email address?
@sickr It seems to be a problem from WordPress itself. In their support forums this is a hot topic, it seems to be they changed something so it’s affecting much more people. It doesn’t seems to be an error you did, but a WordPress new way to handle anonymous comments.
@sickr Here I found this, it was posted yesterday as a workaround. Maybe you can give it a try and see if it helps. Other WordPress admins say it was helpful.
http://diaryofdaedalus.com/2012/03/15/tech-note-wordpress-com-changes-commenting-with-gravatars/
Thanks, although it doesn’t mention the anonymous issue. Hopefully it gets resolved quickly! I’ve contacted two people at WordPress so hopefully they are busy working on something.
Ah OK! You’re welcome ;) So you’ll have to wait as everyone else for this problem to be solved, it seems to be it started yesterday. I’ve only found one closed thread from a member of the WordPress Staff who mentions this “update”
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/recent-update-to-commenting?replies=1
That ‘misserable little pile of’ text it’s not enough to explain it, but at least we know it’s an error from WordPress. Maybe they’ll not answer you but surely they’re working on a solution (Maybe) :P
Thanks for your help. Much appreciated :-)
Seriously, wouldn’t this be better at keeping trolls in check?
Besides, it’s not like you sell out emails to ad spammers… :/
Trolls can easily get around it I’m afraid
that’s true i hope the blog is hated free.
at least sickr gave a heads up and nothing wrong in a head-up is there sickr
Exactly. There were a few people getting frustrated about not being able to comment, and rightfully so. Hopefully it will be fixed soonish.
Sure
This problem actually partially benefits the site. “seigfried von schroider” can’t comment at the moment, for instance.
I say partially because it could prevent legitimate anonymous people from commenting.
im sorry for my dimension twin causing trouble on the blog, still why does he hate a company and go were 90% people like the company, it does not make scenes.
Leave it broken. It’ll keep trolls from posting. :)
keep especially ps trolls out of here!
dah reel peteriuss is bak faggot.
anonymous u suck! now whos the kid u or me?
You seem to get around it, so not all trolls got stopped.
U dah troll evil red peteriuss.
that majora’s mask pic is awesomely creepy.
mm is my favourite zelda game
It won’t let me comment with my real gravatar. So I have to use this one. Oh well….
It appears to be affecting other sites as well. You’ll just have to bear with it for a few days I’m afraid.
I was wondering why the traffic seemed slow today. Hopefully it will be fixed soon so we can get back to having half a page of people insulting someone who said “first”.
Leave luck to heaven.
Ha, there will always be someone who wants to claim that first comment!
And there will always be Blue Sheels to fight them =P haha
Trolololololol
If you’re seeing this, I did not type in an email.
Doesn’t work.
This is fucking stupid, I have to use my mom’s email address ¬.¬
Sorry, should be sorted in the next few days.
Yeah, it’s not your fault, it’s WordPress.
Hey thanks for the link up there. This unwelcome change from wordpress appears to have been implemented to keep gravatar/wordpress email addys from being “borrowed” for nefarious reasons, and now requires anyone who attempts to post a comment using an email addy that is registered on gravatar/wordpress to log in to WP before the comment can be posted.
In their apparent ineptitude, however, the error that is displayed doesn’t direct the user to a log in page, or offer further instructions of any kind. So, most gravatar users are going to assume that they don’t have a wordpress.com account (which they actually do, since the two are pretty much interchangeable), and probably assume that they’re banned from the site or required to register a fresh wordpress.com account in order to proceed (both of which aren’t attractive, of course, and the latter would lead to even more confusion once the user decides to register with the same email that they were attempting to use in the first place). In the end, many commenters are simply going to shrug their shoulders and move on.
What’s worse, I’m guessing that most of the hundreds of thousands of WP.com bloggers out there aren’t yet aware of the problem, as the change wasn’t exactly announced and most aren’t going to be contacted by the average visitor. In other words, they’re losing comments from legit folks and don’t even realize it.
Even if it was properly executed (which it isn’t even close), t’s a boneheaded sledgehammer solution to a fly-sized problem. Hopefully they realize their mistake and switch it back…soon.
BTW: This is the link I was referring to:
http://diaryofdaedalus.com/2012/03/15/tech-note-wordpress-com-changes-commenting-with-gravatars/
I felt obligated to post up those instructions for our visitors, and you’re free to borrow them (however, since you don’t have a log in link in your sidebar, you might want to add that for convenience).
I say they drop this whole thing and go back to how it used to be 2 days ago………..
yes it’s incredibly stupid, IMO. It (the change) does nothing to stop smam. In fact, it appears to encourage folks to use phony emails (like so), thereby increasing the likelihood that legit commenters get caught in the spam filter.
The only problem that this addresses (that I can think of) is those trolls out there who are using someone else’s email addy in the comment form, in an attempt to impersonate or otherwise borrow their gravatar. But that thinking is flawed, since anyone can still simply steal an image and apply it to their own gravatar account, if they really wanted to impersonate another netizen.
So we’re left to assume that log ins are now going to be required for the purposes of tracking or something?
Kind of a head-scratcher….
I saw your post and a tweet you did with the link. Your solution (even if I don’t admin any site right now) seems to be plausible for the moment. You’ve done right posting in the official forums where one should see first so surely many people will be able to see it. Thanks for the explanation ;)
Seems peaceful right now… I like it
I think I tracked down the source of this whole mess:
https://twitter.com/#!/photomatt/status/180157622329159680
and
https://twitter.com/#!/photomatt/status/180669542803058689
You got to be kidding me…
“Solution to stop fake comments”
Yea…
….EPIC FAIL
(the above comment done to demonstrate the magnitude of wordpress.com’s epic fail)
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sickr, if we are having that issue we cant post about it.
i dont even know if this will work as my normal email for this is having that error. its been going on since early yesterday my time.
It’s a real pain in the ass. I’ve contacted support and it’s happening to all sites that are hosted by WordPress. I really hope they get their stuff together. Sorry about this.
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It works again!
It’s been on and off all weekend. It’s got to be resolved sometime.
Girl) am I pretty?
(boy) NO
(girl) do you want to be with me forever?
(boy) NO
(girl) would you cry if I walked away? (boy) NO
… she heard enough and was hurt, she walked away. Tears ran down her face.
The boy grabbed her arm:
(boy) you’re not pretty… you’re beautiful
(boy) I don’t want to be with you forever… I need to be with you forever.
(boy) I wouldn’t cry if you walked away… I would DIE!
(boy whispers) plzz stay with me.
(girl whispers) I will…
Tonight at midnight your true love will realize they love you.
Something good will happen to you 1-4 pm.
Tomorrow it could be anywhere.
Get ready for the shock of your life! If you don’t post this to five other comments… you will have relationship problems for the next ten years
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