Comments can't get posted ?

[vacien]

I've posted comments to my own stories a few times. Sometimes, after my comments go "under review", they then never appear !

There is nothing against the Lit guidelines in these comments, and I am sure they are not canned for content, but rather, just somehow erroneously deleted /lost.

Also, sometimes my comments are reviewed and posted within a a very short time(under an hour) ; sometimes over a much longer time period (8+ hours); and sometimes never ( I repost the same comment in this case, and cross my fingers. The finger crossing seems to work 100%)

Anyone have any clues as to what's going on?

 

[TxRad]

I've posted comments to my own stories a few times. Sometimes, after my comments go "under review", they then never appear !

There is nothing against the Lit guidelines in these comments, and I am sure they are not canned for content, but rather, just somehow erroneously deleted /lost.

Also, sometimes my comments are reviewed and posted within a a very short time(under an hour) ; sometimes over a much longer time period (8+ hours); and sometimes never ( I repost the same comment in this case, and cross my fingers. The finger crossing seems to work 100%)

Anyone have any clues as to what's going on?

We had tons of spam showing up in comments a while back so now a spam checker is ran on all comments. It is a pain but welcome to the world wild web.

 

[vacien]

I see. if it's automatic then why does the review time vary? it's so frustrating to repost esp a longer comment.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I see. if it's automatic then why does the review time vary? it's so frustrating to repost esp a longer comment.

We speculate - batch processing rather than steady-flow processing, possibly tied also to server refresh cycles. I have seen anywhere between fifteen minutes and eight hours for a comment to go through. It is what it is, and better than the spam attacks we used to get.

 

[vacien]

got it. I'll assume if it's over 10 hours then i need to repost it then. thanks!

 

[ElectricBlue]

It is odd that some of your comments don't get posted at all. I've seen one of two other people report that, and one assumes either a glitch or something in the comment triggering a rejection. I generally err on the side of glitch rather than deliberation, but who knows?

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I've tried to comment on my own story twice and my comments don't get posted. Frustrating because I'm trying to keep people updated on the next chapter.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Just wanted to update, it took nine hours but my comment has posted!

 

[vacien]

Hit or miss

Mine took more than 12 hours. One posted and one disappeared. So far I think 5 out of 10 comments I have written have disappeared over the past 3 months.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Mine took more than 12 hours. One posted and one disappeared. So far I think 5 out of 10 comments I have written have disappeared over the past 3 months.

I don't post many comments, and they're only ever on my own stories.
Out of the three I recently posted, two posted, one never did.

 

[NotWise]

Out of the three I recently posted, two posted, one never did.

My most recent comment didn't show up, but that was probably my fault. I previewed the comment but I might have forgotten to submit it.

 

[gordo12]

got it. I'll assume if it's over 10 hours then i need to repost it then. thanks!

Could be longer. I've seen up to two days. Posting over the weekend sometimes gets left till Monday. I've seen a full day between writing the comment and it posting during the week.

Frankly, I've just about given up commenting. Now they come thru in large batches and it takes too much time to respond to them all. Authors aren't responding and I don't blame them 'cause I'm ignoring a lot of comments on my own stories.

 

[vacien]

Sometimes, maybe, I forget to hit submit (just preview).

Other times, I'm sure that I see that the comment is "under review". And then it never posts. I write a new comment with similar content, and the new comment posts.

I thought that maybe it was just me but i guess not.