Not sure what you’re talking about, but it sounds good and worth a try. I’m having lunch with Galen tomorrow. Maybe I’ll bring my laptop so he can play with my cookies.

I was thinking I might have been flagged by the sheer volume as well!

If your cookie is corrupted, odd things can happen. If it wasn’t the issue, this shouldn’t cause any harm. But your mileage may vary, etc.

Also try the wordpress user forums to see if others are having the same issue.

I COMPLETELY agree with not changing your username. It literally has become your “brand name” now. Having to re-brand would be devastating for your business and your online presence regardless of how compelling “Little Miss Know It All.com” is. Are you then supposed to change your name again when “LMKIA.com” is all blogged out?!?!

You may be a victim of your own success. As a statistical outlier with regard to your blogging volume, I would not be surprised if you raised some poor unsuspecting algorithm’s flag with comment-induced emails. It would seem possible that you out-blogged the tolerances of the formula governing email volume. Let me be clear, the answer is not to blog less! This would be a software designer resolution issue. Perhaps they could call it the “Ardell Affect”.. The good news is you would be famous among real estate professionals as well as software designers!

I would look into the internet service provider issue. It is a reasonable explanation for why you solely are being filtered and not the others. Nevertheless it is frustrating, and I feel for you, especially considering the value it provides to your business and your work flow.

I wish you the best!

Harley

I corrected the first couple of paragraphs for you.

As to the comment issue, most recently and after my email stopped, Dustin upgraded the WordPress something or other. One of the results is that a first time visitor goes into moderation only on the first comment. We’re testing that out because of the video commenting ability.

I would expect if someone is a regular poster, but posts from a different IP address, it would view them as a one time poster.

As to comments changing numbers or appearing later, often that is because someone was inmoderation or trapped and released from the spam filter. When we release them, they “drop in” at the timeframe the wrote the comment, and not at the end of the string, and that will push other people’s comments into a different comment number.

Thanks,
Mr. Sleepy Brain

I think there is something deeper than an email issue going on with your blog. You will notice that there are two comments posted by me. The second comment was actually the first comment and did not populate the comment section when I originally hit “Say it”.

The third comment was another attempt by me to post the comment. For several hours the third comment showed as the second on your blog. Then last night, out of the blue, my original comment reappeared.

This seems indicative to a wordpress server-side issue and nothing to do with you. I looked into their forum and there are many people having the same problems.

One person indicated that it may be your internet service provider blocking the emails. Comcast is infamous for this. Assuming that you have hundreds of emails a week from wordpress due to being a “Power-Blogger” this may appear as a “spam” from Comcast’s perspective. Their algorithms will begin filtering wordpress emails thinking that it is a spam server and not a legitimate email server. You may need to call Comcast or whomever your internet service provider is and request “manual intervention” in removing wordpress mail server from their blocked server list.

Here is a copy of their comments:

1.
indiscretion Member April 10th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

Sorry… I meant, this happened back on March 21 AS WELL. It’s happening again, now.
2.
mommytomorgan Member April 27th, 2008 at 1:23 am

Same thing is happening to me. It’s happened multiple times. The first few times, my ISP was blocking them. WordPress requested the block be lifted and everything was fine. This last time (this past week), nothing was done about it. Every now and then, a few stray comment e-mails will filter in, but out of 27 comments on a post Thursday night, I received maybe 8 or 9 of them in my e-mail. I’ve tried changing the e-mail address in my profile section to a different one, but it’s not letting me. I’ve been searching on here for any solution, but am coming up empty handed. I’m beyond frustrated!
3.
katm Member April 27th, 2008 at 1:28 am

I think you will need to contact support when they open on Monday.
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mommytomorgan Member April 27th, 2008 at 1:33 am

I’ve been in contact with them several times. I think they’re frustrated that I keep bothering them

Thanks for the reply!
5.
mermaids Member April 27th, 2008 at 11:43 am

i’ve been having the same problem for months. very frustrating. i will try to contact support on monday.
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katm Member April 27th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

You guys can also go to the wp.com IRC channel. You’ll need an IRC client (xchat is good as is chatzilla for Firefox). Join #wordpress.com on freenode.net
7.
evandad Member May 1st, 2008 at 3:53 am

Same thing happening to me. Not getting e-mail notification or comments or pingbacks on any of my three WP blogs since about April 15.

I’ve not had this problem before, and I’ve been on WordPress for 14 months.
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claudecf Member May 1st, 2008 at 6:11 am

It’s happened on and off lately on both my blogs
http://bloggingininparis.com
http://vieuxcestmieux.com

There is no “discussion”, Harley, in my view. I’m forwarding your suggestion to Dustin to see if he has access to the menu columns you describe.

No luck yet, but it’s not likely my email server if I’m getting emails via comments on my Other Wordpress blog, right?

Thanks everyone for your help…still no luck though.