12 likes equals 12 dots

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  masqua · Member · Feb 16, 2013 at 9:12 pm

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  I notice in the Reader that some posts gain dots with every like, while others do not. What is causing this?

  eg:

  5 likes

  dot
  dot
  dot
  dot
  dot

  Thanks

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Feb 16, 2013 at 9:19 pm

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  I am not sure what you mean by “dots”.

  I am sure of what follows. Likes and shares are misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can “like” and “share” your posts in several locations such as the Reader without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat. See here for what I do to compel readers to read posts on my site > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/07/09/wordpress-followers-likes-and-stats

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  masqua · Member · Feb 16, 2013 at 9:23 pm

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  By dots, I guess I mean bullets like what you put on a bullet list.

  It happens on some posts I view on Reader, but not all. It’s not a problem until you are viewing a post with 175 likes, which means a long scroll to get to the next post in Reader.

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  masqua · Member · Feb 17, 2013 at 12:04 am

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  I posted a screen grab of an example on my blog. I’ll remove it when the mystery is resolved.

  http://masqua.ca/2013/02/16/mysterious-bullet-points-screen-shot/#respond

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  masqua · Member · Feb 17, 2013 at 12:36 am

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  Forget about it. There’s only going to be a problem if there’s 50,000 likes on a post anyways.

  I’m deleting the screen grab off my blog.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2013 at 3:34 pm

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  I now have a post in my Reader displaying exactly what you are talking about. There are dots for every comment on the post. I tagged this thread for Staff attention. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond.

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  masqua · Member · Feb 17, 2013 at 10:54 pm

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  OK, tf…

  This morning, I came across a post with over 50 of them, which really isn’t a lot, but think about 250 or more.

  Scrolling scrolling scrolling – yippy ki oh ki yay

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  timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2013 at 11:00 pm

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  I left the modlook tag up because when I saw that on my Reader I wanted to to scream.

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  zodiac1978 · Member · Feb 18, 2013 at 11:44 am

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  cross reference: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/strange-list-items-on-the-reader-page

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 18, 2013 at 11:48 am

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  Yes, and it’s in the moderators’ forum as well…

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Feb 19, 2013 at 9:58 am

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  Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I’ve let our developers know about the glitch.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Feb 20, 2013 at 10:30 pm

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  This issue should now be fixed. If anyone is still experiencing problems with the display of Likes in the Reader, please let me know.

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  masqua · Member · Feb 20, 2013 at 10:54 pm

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  I’ve spent a lot of time in the Reader today and found no more of those bullet points.

  :D

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  zodiac1978 · Member · Feb 20, 2013 at 10:55 pm

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  Thanks for the update! Looks good for me!

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  fosterb · Member · Feb 21, 2013 at 7:53 am

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  No dots anymore. Thanks.