Copy of your comment on another person's blog/journal

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    undesirablelikeme · Member ·

    I will try to make this quick..

    There is obviously a copy made of any comment you write on your own page, unless you’ve deleted it for some reason of course.

    Now my question is, when we write a comment on another person’s blog, if it is “accepted” by the other person, obviously there will be a copy of it in our conversations, but what it if was never accepted, put in spam, or deleted?
    Can I get a copy of that not yet accepted, or deleted comment?

    Is there a place on the dashboard, that I am missing, that saves a copy of that comment regardless of what the owner of the blog does with it…?

    Or, if the owner never accepts it, has abandoned their blog, or they delete it, is it gone for good never to see the light of day again?

    Hopefully you can understand what I am trying to get at.

    I don’t care too much about comments that are only a few sentences long, however I like to keep comments that are a number of paragraphs for future reference. Especially if it contains something I would like to follow up on and make a blog post about.

    Or do I need to start making a personal copy on my computer of any lengthy comment I make on another person’s blog before I hit ‘send’ in the future?

    Thank you all for your time.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    I don’t understand what you mean by a “copy” of a comment.

    If you leave a comment on someone’s site, that comment is saved in the site’s database only. There are no other copies of the comment saved anywhere else, except for the email notification that is sent to the owner of the site and/or the person being replied to.

    Once the comment is approved by the site owner, you can also see it in the Reader, both on the post and in the Conversations section, but the Reader pulls that comment in from the site’s database, it’s not a separate copy of the comment.

    If the site owner decides not to approve or to delete the comment, that means for all practical purposes the comment doesn’t exist unless the site owner later decides to approve or restore it. So if you want to keep a copy of comments you leave for your own records you’ll need to do that manually before you publish a comment.

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    undesirablelikeme · Member ·

    Sorry, kokkieh, I do try and make things as clear as possible in a forum. I do tend to ramble a bit.
    I know how to build a pc but haven’t a clue how a site like WordPress is run. Have no idea on the terminology one would use that is not my personal/made-up name for it. I think you understood what I was trying to say and answered with the information that I was looking for.
    So, thank you!

    I see what you are saying about a site and the comments left on it. It would be futile to save hidden or deleted comments anywhere, if no one is going to see them.

    As for what I mean by a “copy” – I know that WordPress is nothing like an email account, but I automatically assumed we would have a “inbox” and “sent” type of filling system for ALL comments that we write somewhere in our profile, no matter what blog they were posted on. For example, with an email account, even if a friend deletes what I have written to them using their email address, I will always have a copy unless I delete it.

    I hope that made a bit more sense!

    Not really sure how the site works as far as the databases go, but from what I can gather from your reply – Every site/journal is an island unto themselves. Comments written on another site become theirs to do with what they will. Comments written on my site become mine.

    I shall keep that in mind the next time I leave a lengthy comment on another person’s site, manually saving anything I think might be of use at a later date.

    Thank you so very much for your response, for clarifying the comment system for me.

    All good now. This can be closed.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    I think you understood what I was trying to say and answered with the information that I was looking for.
    So, thank you!

    My pleasure :)

    Every site/journal is an island unto themselves. Comments written on another site become theirs to do with what they will. Comments written on my site become mine.

    That is a good way of describing it.

    I vaguely recall there used to be a My Comments section somewhere, I think in the Reader, where you could see your past comments across sites in a feed format with the previous and next reply for context, but that hasn’t been around for a while. And still that depended on the comment being published on the site (i.e. not pending moderation or deleted), similar to the Conversations feature we recently added.

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