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Oscar 19:57 on 19/01/2014 Permalink Reply  

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  Christa Forster 20:17 on 19/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

  Oscar, I went into the Dashboard and moved that comment to the trash, so please repost it under the correct discussion.

  FYI, I copied and pasted your original response in an email to you, although you could dig the one I removed out of the trash section of the Dashboard and repost it that wayy as well, if you were so inclined. xoxo

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    Oscar 20:59 on 19/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

    Aw, thanks, for your help Christa! Though, crikey, I’ve just tried to repost my comment in the “‘correct” place again and, to my surprise, it’s ended up in a new “wrong” place!!! I’ve been trying to add it to the dialogue that follows your call to participate – but, somehow, it refuses to post there and I’ve no idea why it’s failing…

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      Christa Forster 21:05 on 19/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

      It’s probably the ghost of Izzy d’medici messing it up! 🙂

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        Oscar 21:16 on 19/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

        Lord, Christa, perhaps not Izzy (she seems to be more tech-savvy than me) 😉 but maybe it’s the ghost of Mr Frederick Archer screwing things up?? He appears to have bones to pick over the way he met his death…
        One more try, eh?! xx

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      Christa Forster 21:10 on 19/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

      Dear Oscar, if you are logged in, you can go up to the top of the page where you’ll see a “+ New” option. If you click that “New”, you’ll be in the Dashboard, and you’ll be able to move the comment to the trash and try reposting again (?). I appreciate your efforts!

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        Oscar 21:21 on 19/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

        Woo Hoo, Christa! It worked!! Have successfully relocated troublesome comment. Guess Mr. Archer’s resting peacefully after all…

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          Vanessa 21:53 on 19/01/2014 Permalink

          Hey Oscar ‘n Christa. It’s not YOU… it’s… well… it’s not ME either… but something’s a tiny bit amiss here and unfortunately comments sometimes go on the wrong post… I moved a few but it does get tedious… I’m sort of working on a fix but IDK what the exact issue is and so I’m sort of stalling for an update or alt platform… I don’t actually have an easy answer unfortunately.

          Moving them sorta works but is a pain. Just letting them sometimes go to the wrong place seems wrong, but you pretty much know what’s going on anyway.

          It seems as if commenting on the newest post always works. But sometimes commenting on the 2nd or 1-down post goes instead to the top post. That’s all I’ve really figured out so far. Sorry about this!

          If you figure out when it does and doesn’t go wrong, I can more precisely ask the “Houston” designer Woo Themes about it. TY / Sorry!

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  Vanessa 23:19 on 19/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

  Yes Christa, I agree! At the risk of introducing yet another app, the platform Editorially, which Molly and I started using for our MOOC Writeup Article, might be nice as it can have multiple authors and you can edit, record changes, it has a comment panel that can link to doc text, etc

  I just threw the text up there and sent you an invitation to collaborate. We only have a week to submit it — but we do well with deadlines! — and I think that can help us focus on broad, dramatic strokes. I think you hilited most of the same areas that leapt out as exciting / motivating / relevant to me.

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  Vanessa 23:37 on 19/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

  Yes, Xta, I’ve seen this too. It’s weird. So many “tiny moving parts” in these contraptions! 😛

  It’s happened to me too, with Michael specifically, although it probably isn’t him.

  The only thing I can think of is that when someone who doesn’t have a “Gravatar” (the “Wavatar” is the randomly generated “cartoon” for peeps who didn’t sign up at Gravatar) for some strange reason our “Diablo” theme on .Re/search gets confused and makes it look like we talk to ourselves even more than we already do!

  Geez!

  So a comment bug in the .Re/act “Houston” theme
  and a different comment bug in the .Re/search “Diablo” theme

  I’m not certain that the “theme” is even the culprit, IDK. We could twist Michael’s arm to go paste a pix at Gravatar. That wouldn’t fix it for other unsignedup peeps, but he talks more than most of them so it’d be a clumsy but helpful partial fix.

  Diablo and Houston are pretty nice so I’m loathe to lose them, but perhaps I should at least try some other themes to try to track down these 2 bugs. To me, the .Re/search issue is a minor annoyance, but the .Re/act issue is a real mess.

  Also, separate (3rd!) thing, which you probably realize, is that you seem to have 2 accounts, the “Christa Forster” and the “Xtaforster”. This is basically fine, but could be confusing. I assume you have 2 different emails and login 2 different times / ways. For simplicity I like to have everything under one email and try to not have more multiple identities than necessary! 😛

  Unless, obviously, if I’m resurrecting Octavian or something, in which case I might use a separate Augustus.Caesar@gmail.com account…

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    Christa Forster 00:37 on 20/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

    I would be loathe to change to a new theme, too, because I’ve just gotten used to this one! Thanks for the reminder of why my two different photos are showing up. You’re right. I’ve got two different emails operating; I will try and streamline it asap.

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  Vanessa 13:42 on 20/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

  Crikey! I can actually comment on Oscar’s post now! Praise the Lord!

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  Oscar 11:22 on 20/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

  Thank you for all your hard work, Vanessa and for the helpful posting tips Christa! I’m having a rough day as my “blast from the past” – 19th Century Donnie – is proving to be quite a handful…

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    Isabella Medici 12:17 on 20/01/2014 Permalink | Reply

    You’re doing a great job Oscar. Try to be patient with with Donnie. Don’t let him wear you out!!