The Frumplingtons

Over the past few days I have attempted to leave comments on a few blogs; blogs hosted by Blogger.com, to be specific.

And it has not been easy.

Despite the fact that we do actually have a profile for The Frumplingtons on Blogger, it almost felt as if the Blogspot comments forms thought I was trying to post an anonymous comment. ‘Could not log you in‘, was one of the things that appeared on screen during one fruitless commenting attempt.

Just for the record, I don’t leave anonymous comments. I mean, how on earth can you have a dialogue or any sort of interaction with another blogger by leaving anonymous comments? And if you don’t want to interact with your fellow writers (or at least say ‘Hi!’) why would you be leaving a comment in the first place? (Yes, I know there are a few zealous individuals trying to sell quack nostrums and aphrodisiacs to us all, but I’m talking about ‘proper’ bloggers who write ‘real’ blogs, rather than about online salesmen, just so we’re clear about that.)

I eventually did manage to leave some of my comments only after disabling Javascript in my browser and trying again. It was for me, on one particular occasion, third time lucky. But of course, not everyone knows about Javascript and how to disable it, and not everyone is so persistent, so some would-be commenters would simply have given up.

The problem, as far as I can see, may have something to do with Google and/or Blogger implementing its new beta service. Teething troubles perhaps.

But if your blog is hosted by Blogger and you feel as if nobody is reading or, more to the point, reacting to your posts, well, us readers are still out here and no doubt everything will get sort out eventually. Meanwhile, just keep those entries coming.

Chris