Why can't we have a choice?
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@develish1, my question in the first few sentences was honest, but I now realized that the rest of my comments were in general and not addressing you directly. Perhaps that caused you to call me out for sarcasm? Wasn’t meant to be. Apologies.
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@arifsali
that’s okay. I’ve spent the last 48 hours on and off (as I do every weekend) dealing with people who are (well lets just say calling them idiots would be a compliment), on a site where I work voluntarily as a moderator, so perhaps I jumped a bit too fast to the sarcasm assumption. If I did, then I too am sorry for that.The rest of what I said still stands though, I would love to be able to afford my own site where I had total control, but sadly I’m out of work right now, so every penny counts. I’ve been with WordPress for a few years now though, and this is the first time they’ve messed with things to such an extent that I’ve actually considered leaving.
I could maybe have handled the new buttons, if they hadn’t caused so many extra problems in their wake, or if they’d at least given me the choice of an off switch.
As it stands, well I’m unhappy, and so are my readers it seems, if the drop in the number commenting is anything to go by, so my options are limited. Stick it out and hope they give me an off switch soon, or leave. Neither sounds terribly appealing at this point though.
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The forced interaction and advertisement for facebook is noxious enough. But I suppose I could endure that.
But that they’re not only forcing this thing on us, but doing it so incompetently, that this ugly and offensive comment box doesn’t even work, is the most disgusting part.
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Yesterday I wrote a message in Comments explaining to readers that they needed to scroll down to find the Post Comment button, that they should click the button more than once, and that they needn’t be put off by the twitter, facebook and guest buttons.
I learned that comments made that morning never appeared, as I suspected. This is so discouraging when your blog is brand-new and people are looking at it and commenting (or trying to comment!) for the first time.
Since my instructions were attached to that post, I may have the same problem again today and from now on. . . unless I keep putting instructions above the reply box! How tacky.
I did contact wordpress support.
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What a breath of fresh air to realise more and more people do not like Facebook and Twitter and would rather go without them on their Blogs. I thought I was the only one!
I’m new here and one of the first things I noticed is that we can’t opt out of those unwanted “services”. Ideally I would like to select “StumbleUpon” as my only sharing button for my readers. I wonder if that’s possible. If this is off topic apologies, I would start a new thread.@develish1 – I love you passionate anti-FB style! :)
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@treespirit11: Yeah, your question is off-topic :-) but here’s the info on how to change the sharing services. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/
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