Comments and likes are being inhibited
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So now I find out that for someone to comment on or like something on my website, they must sign up with wordpress, giving information that will be sold. Facebook and Google already try to trade access for information. We are not allowed to comment on the NPR website, for example, because we will not allow Facebook and Google to sell, for example, our location to bad actors. This violates the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, so these companies are advised to find another way to sell us air. We would win in court- they cannot do that- but they have hired all the lawyers! P. S. We have no money to “upgrade” because our website is inhibited: potential investors are prevented from communicating, and we from contacting them.
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So now I find out that for someone to comment on or like something on my website, they must sign up with wordpress, giving information that will be sold.
That isn’t true.
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Good, because that is what seemed to occur when I tried to comment on the website of the Alchemist there in India, and when a relative tried to do those things, she had to sign up for wordpress. We were not allowed to comment on the Dianne Rehm show website without signing up with Facebook or Google. I guess everyone else just signs up, so they do not notice. What do you think is going on? Later, I will try my friend there in India again. Explain the appearances. I found some settings, that I never set that way, changed them, and that was before the tester had to sign up for wordpress iust in order to like something. Hey, that’s funny, in order to be informed here, just subscribe! And please do discuss the limits of information brokering by Facebook and Google, because we are surely under informed about this. Oh there’s a coupon for it in my mailbox just now!
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So now I find out that for someone to comment on or like something on my website, they must sign up with wordpress, giving information that will be sold.
When users click in the reply box they can choose to login using an existing account to comment or they can comment using just their name and email address.
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Hi there, do users always have to sign in to WordPress to ‘like’ one of my posts? Ideally, I’d like them to be able to like it anyway, without being required to have a WordPress account.
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Ideally, I’d like them to be able to like it anyway, without being required to have a WordPress account.
I’m afraid that’s not possible. The “like” function has to pull info from the “likers” WordPress.com account, so it doesn’t work for people without accounts. Comments however work for everyone.
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So, if my Timetheif there will reference Liz the Fair, she will see that it just isn’t possible for someone to like your stuff without a wordpress account. This will not be allowed by the courts, so wordpress might fix and save a lot of trouble. Ditto for Facebook and Google regarding the Dianne Rehm show comments. Now, the question is of course why this just isn’t possible, and why can someone not just like something without wordpress getting information from them. And my Timetheif must know the reason, since she knows I am so ill informed. Do tell this reason. Perhaps Facebook wants a piece of each of us, or they will inhibit comments and likes, and perhaps Google has eliminated competitors to install themselves as our compulsory search engine. Does WordPress know that editing does not work right on Yahoo, but only Google, and that the attempt to download Duck Duck Go resulted in PC Doctor installing itself on our computer, and that the FBI just hasn’t had time to respond, since they have so much information to go through? When we cannot see the causes, we depend upon trust, and the violation of this trust will destroy these companies, or us, when they sell the wrong information to the wrong people. But at least now I know why I seemed to be setting the record for lowest ratio of content to views to likes and comments, and why only people also on wordpress seemed interested, Oh, and why a book published and marketed seven months ago has never reached a single person who buys that sort of a book, and hence why I have no money to send to wordpress, who we otherwise “like” quite a bit.
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So, if my Timetheif there will reference Liz the Fair, she will see that it just isn’t possible for someone to like your stuff without a wordpress account.
One has to have a WordPress.com/Gravatar account and be logged into WordPress.com to use the “in-house” WordPress.COM like button for WordPress.COM bloggers. In other words, like button use here at WordPress.COM is the same as it is everywhere else that there is an “in-house” like button provided for member use only.
Comments however work for everyone.
As for the value of “likes” I am not naive. I have been online for over a decade and I am aware of the attention seekers who click like buttons on blog posts simply for the purpose to directing traffic back to their own blogs ie. like button spammers. I also know that a like button click on any post does not translate into an intent to purchase any merchandise.
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And if comments follow likes, the comments too are inhibited, but either of these is a violation of the First Amendment. “In House” is a nice way of saying this, but does it not mean the same thing? It is a violation of speech and association, because the overwhelming impression, until one figures it out for oneself, is that anyone who visits can like something, and hence the impression that no one liked it. And if someone first tries to like something before commenting, then decides they do not care enough to trust wordpress with whatever information is required, they have just been prevented from commenting. Further, those rejecting a certain company or those rejecting information brokering are prevented from speaking. Further, depending on the arrangement between WordPress and Facebook or Google, visitors, likes and comments could all be inhibited for those who do not trust Facebook and Google. Again, that everyone does it is a poor excuse, especially since it took me flack and 8 or 9 months just to figure out. Again, we suggest that you correct this immediately. 100 U. S. service persons were (supposedly) targeted recently using information from Facebook, and soon the whole country is going to realize that our inobservance of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments is a national security disaster. Incidentally, Kaspersky is centered in Moscow. Am I the only one concerned? Must just be me, the ill-informed. Now I will go read about how wordpress, like every other “in house” thing, would never shake down our visitors for information that is then brokered.
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After reading the “Privacy policy,” I think that I do not want to like or comment on anything on the internet at all now anyway, and can see why others would not. I think I am going to be sick. We are simply too stupid to continue as a nation. Please reconsider this policy, though we won’t expect anything to be done till it effects the bottom line.
Thank You,
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And after trying to blog about wordpress inhibiting likes, comments and access to the internet, I was informed that Internet explorer blocked a pop up from wordpress .com, just when the Yahoo blogging function froze my computer for the second night in a row. Have the timetheif inform me, you know, set me straight, if I have time to read it after checking for whether Google owns wordpress. I’ll see my congressman Tim Walberg tomorrow in Milan, so they’ll have to contribute even more to his campaign fund. We used to think WordPress was special, while the others were like this. Apologize, and stop shaking down my visitors and limiting access in exchange for things that I was offered a sliding scale to cover. Or, if you do not like the First Amendment, go operate in a nation without a Bill of Rights, if you do not already. I took the likes off the website, eliminating the farce. Why not just computer generate your own content, if you don’t “Like” it? Or have those girls write me an essay on why the First Amendment does not apply to you on this issue, to get prepared, since your lawyers may have to defend that very strong position.
Sick from Too Many Cookies
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