I can't like (or see likes) on other blogs' comments (again/still)
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I posted about this earlier and thought it was resolved, but it’s coming up again. When I comment on another WordPress blog, sometimes I can’t see a “like” button on any of the comments, yet I get emails that say that other people (not the original poster) have “liked” my comment. How can they like my comments but I can’t like theirs? I’ve tried looking through my own settings but can’t find anything that could explain this. When this happened last time, it turned out that the WP blogger had likes disabled on his comments, so he could “like” from his dashboard but nobody else could.
Here, though, I’m getting likes from people who are not listed as the writers for this blog. Here is an example post where this is happening: https://nhwn.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/writing-fears/?c=56593#comment-56593
Here’s the forum post from last time I had this problem: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-cant-like-or-see-likes-on-other-blogs-comments?replies=14
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Like button clicking is quick and easy to do and does not require what composing and submitting and actual valuable comment does. People are lazy and this generation online now is without doubt the most button clicking generation I have experienced.
Not all bloggers place a high value or indeed any value at all on likes and some of us do not enable likes on our blogs. We can disable likes on a post by post or page by page basis. https://en.support.wordpress.com/comment-likes/#how-to-enable%C2%A0comment-likes
Please see your former thread here and take note of what you find: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-cant-like-or-see-likes-on-other-blogs-comments?replies=14#post-2463216
It would seem that the blogger does not choose to enable likes on comments. https://en.support.wordpress.com/comment-likes/
Although comment likes are disabled on the site, the blog owner is still able to like comments made on his post through his dashboard. -
Additional information on stats, likes, follows and comments
Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and here https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors and note the views and viewers take hours to update.
Our stats are page view stats. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.
Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.
Logged in visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606
You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.
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Yes, I understand that not all blogs enable likes on comments. What I am confused by, as I said, is that I received emails from WP saying that multiple people other than the person who wrote the blog post did “like” my comment on this post, even though I can’t “like” in return.
Since the blog owner can do this, I suppose one explanation is that these other people are also authorized users of this blog, even though their names do not appear on the “writers” page of the blog. Is that a reasonable guess?
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