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Alas, my heart is broken. WordPress does not love me. In fact, WP is totally indifferent to me. The happiness engineers just refuse to engineer any happiness. I don’t know what I’ve done to cause such rejection and complete indifference.
I would kindly dash myself off a cliff somewhere, but those cliffs always have some half dressed hispanic guy on horseback dashing about, and knowing me, I would just forget the task at hand. Then I would be mindlessly pacing back and forth on the edge of cliff, totally oblivious to the waves crashing below, stalking some shirtless random dude on horseback like a complete moron. Actually, that doesn’t sound half bad….
I grow weary of always submitting polite inquires only to be completely ignored. My followers are frequently unsubscribed against their will and I have to go hunt people down. This is awkward because one never knows when someone slipped off on purpose because they just genuinely hate me. It’s okay to hate me people, but it is not okay for someone else to decide you must hate me. Or for a glitch to keep deciding to unsubscribe you.
I don’t mind a bit of stalking, in fact a big part of blogging involves stalking other bloggers. But I simply haven’t got the time to stalk everyone, over and over again, day after day!
So I often hear, how come you unsubscribed me? How come you keep blocking me? Why aren’t you in my reader anymore? I don’t. I never have. There are only two people in my entire history of blogging who I actually filter and I don’t even really do that, I just send them through spam with the other potted meat products, because most of what they write is generally gelatinous and offensive. I have never unsubscribed anyone.
It’s a maddening situation, but being a proper femme fatale here, after exhausting all other avenues all that is left now is begging, pleading. Oh please, oh please WordPress, do fix the glitch or set me free or respond to my inquiries or something! Your silence is just deafening, cruel, cruel, I tell ya.
Alas, woe is me. Unrequited love, there’s really nothing worse, is there?
See, there's this thing called biology... 
It’s maddening, isn’t it? It seems to an arbitrary bug. I’ve experienced this, and I have several blogging friends who have as well.
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I’m happy to tell you it’s not you, my dear. It’s them. They’ve been ignoring this problem for years.
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I know, it’s been happening to me for about two years now. It’s just gotten worse so I started asking them about it, but…nothing. Wahhhh… 😉
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I have been denied access to most of of the people that I follow. I have to stalk them through other posts mostly challenge links. After awhile you figure the blog gods aren’t helping you. Good luck,but as the message on the phone says “due to high call volume two people are ahead of you. Wait times are approximately three weeks” 😣
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Well, it’s still lovely to meet a fellow stalker. 😉
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Even better out in the open. It seems strangely different. 😃
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Have you gone to the forums to see if this is happening to anyone else and if they perhaps have an answer?
Becky
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Yes. I can’t find anything in the forums about it, except my own unanswered posts. I have talked to a couple bloggers who seem to have the same issue, so at least I know I’m not alone. 😉
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Frustrating!
Becky
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‘Hello 911?’
‘Yep, please hold…………… ‘ 😉
Agree with ya in jest, that it shouldn’t be decided by others who should hate you……..frustrating to the nines; and if I shared my thoughts further, there is a chance I may see you in the basement, so we better say hello from a distance ms bytes. 😉
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Ha! Well if we’re doomed to be sent to the basement, at least I’ll know I’ll have some good company and delightful conversations. 😉
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Yay, there is one person on WP that can tolerate my ramblings. 😉
Tkx for the heads up….neighbor.
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Ahh, but we don’t just tolerate your ramblings, we actually delight in them! A bit of salt really adds to the flavor.
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….she says as she tips the glass and raises the left eyebrow…….
Dang if the return comments do not regularly surpass the previous ones. That iron sharpening iron thing I guess.
That was cool and appreciated. Made me smile out loud.
And all this from a bewildered WP user(s).
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Would you agree that trying to get in contact with someone at WordPress that can help would make a great script for a new Mission Impossible movie?
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Bahaha! Yes! That’s a fabulous idea. I bet if we made a blockbuster movie about it, word press would pay attention.
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It does feel a bit like stalking, doesn’t it? I only read a handful of blogs and pretty much check my reader daily. Sometimes I actually find myself hesitating before I make yet another comment mostly because I’m afraid the blogger at the other end is gonna think I’m a crazy stalker. Lolz
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Ha! That’s why I just announce outright that I am indeed, a crazy stalker. Let’s just clear the air here, shall we? 😉
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I had a problem and it took four days for three individual happiness engineers to understand what I was saying the problem was. Finally, they told me the problem was what I had been telling them it was for four days. I fixed it myself.
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WP has given me the cold shoulder recently, too. And they were so attentive when our love was young…
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Crazy!!!
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Reblogged this on Talmidimblogging.
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And you have already described a great scene…this hispanic guy who is desperately trying to distract you from dashing off that cliff by taking his clothes off!
Haha, your post had me both laughing and regretfully agreeing!
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Sorry, meant to add for the Mission impossible movie..
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I love your poster about being mostly not there. But I guess WordPress help is less there than the rest of us. J.
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I haven’t read the other comments…have you tried to “chat” to talk in real time with them?
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(Groan) While I’ve had issues with being locked out of my own site, (issues trying to reset forgotten password) WP hasn’t messed with me for some time.
I had managed to use one of their weird tabs to call attn. to admin, Re their non support to free sites, only paid subscribers, and requested they just allow upgrades to apply to all when making platform changes. I guess it worked, but they’re still (as in your case) largely unresponsive, and the so called forums are as useful as mammaries on a bull.
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Bahaha! Bull mammaries, huh? Very funny. I have hope, they will respond at some point 😉
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Sorry to hear WordPress doing this to you =(
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Have you considered that part of may be your largely older readership accidentally knocking the follow/unfollow button as the scroll clumsily down their reader?
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Ah, a bit of ageism from my favorite elitist! I’ll have you know, most of us “old folks” don’t scroll clumsily, we glide gracefully and do it right the first time.
We’re really going to have to work on your disrespect and stereotypes, Violet. “Old folks” actually built the computers we’re on, back in the day when they took up an entire room.
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Yes, and their fingers aren’t as accurate as they used to be. I don’t think that’s ageism, just fact. 🙂
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You’re unreal, Violet. Also, you misjudge the average age of the readers around here.
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Hey Violet-
Are your observations here in any way connected to your premise that ‘older people’ are out of step with modern times, or that sensory perceptions are diminished to the degree of helplessness, ESPECIALLY in the fingers of believers?
Can I remind you that Moses died at the age of 120, and his eye was not dim, neither was his natural force abated. He ended his days being a contradiction to your shortsightedness here.
And can i add that both Paul and the host here have done you a favor in their replies. Take it under advisement as a real good opportunity for ya. 😉
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Violet: As an avid reader of IB – I would just like to tell you in the kindest and most caring manner to just F**k Off with your condescending, ageist, elitist, judgmental comments about IB’s followers. You won’t have noticed, because you are so egotistical, that very few of her followers follow you – that would be because of your hateful and duplicitous remarks. So again in the most kindly, caring and peace-loving manner, please go pound sand – at least that will keep you busy so you are not poisoning others’ minds.
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There’s nothing quite like a proper rebuke. Well said, Paul.
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You know IB that you are far more tolerant of comments on your blog than most – in a way it is a real application of freedom of speech that you choose to employ, even to your own detriment by times. I admire you for that. I know that you and Violet have differing opinions on many topics and I enjoy watching you and she trade concepts. That said, when another blogger stoops so low as to criticize and degrade the readers of a fellow blogger, then that is just mud-slinging and is a clear statement of the moral and ethical degradation of the abuser. In fact having seen Violet be verbally abusive here, it would not surprise me if she abusive in her non-blogging relationships as well. She should probably seek some professional help in that area.
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How odd, I usually defend you when my blog buddies make unreasonable remarks about you. Your tribalism is noted. 🙂
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My “tribalism,” always lies with the truth, Violet. I believe the truth in this case lies with the fact that you are deliberately bratting your elders. I empathize, but it’s always wise to get to know the nature of your own self before you go pointing fingers at others.
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Why the fury Paul? It was an honest suggestion, I know I’ve done it, and I can imagine it’s the type of thing my old mum does even more frequently. There’s nothing insulting about being old, I’m surprised you think there is.
And when exactly have I been verbally abusive? When I was deeply disappointed in Insanity supporting jailing gay people in Uganda? I think even then I didn’t say anything that could be classified ‘abusive’. Quite a claim, speaking of mud slinging…
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