Jeannie's dashboard

I'm amazed, too. It's truly ridiculous. Good riddance, Intense Debate. I've already completely removed your plugin (from two of my three installs, and will have the third done just as soon as I can get around the glitch that's preventing me from removing you). I wanted a service, not a hassle. – Jeannie, on February 08, 2009 05:21

I, too, have an issue with an account I chose to delete, STILL pending deletion many months later.

I'd like to have them delete the account by force, but the email I sent was rejected with a redirection to the new help desk. And the new help desk won't let me log in.

grr.

I'd replied to a similar topic before. My carrier is Alltel and with my Treo 650 everything after the "@" would get truncated. I just got a Blackberry Curve (8330) and now I get messages with all the text, just the "@" doesn't show up before the name. Odd behavior, but a definite improvement.

Just shows, though, that though there may be issues with a carrier, it might also have something to do with the phone itself in combination with the carrier.

I'm curious to know how this will change now that Automattic has acquired Intense Debate. I'd really like to start using this soon, but find myself unable to under current conditions. Do we have a timeline of when this will be fixed?

Why is this so hard? International Copyright dictates that a person's words are their own until they assign the rights to them to someone else. Many people dictate on their sites that by commenting, you assign certain rights of those words to the site. This would include editing.

The fact of the matter is, the creators of publishing platforms (blogs, forums, et al) have made editing comments easy for a reason. Respect that, and don't take away rights which are considered obvious and necessary as part of a "service". Taking away the ability to control one's own site is in fact not a service at all but a disservice.

If I clearly state on my site that I have full editorial rights over your comment, and a user is happy with that and comments... why should ID override what 2 consenting adults have agreed upon?

Finally, please don't make assumptions based on other site owners who have not weighed in. Don't assume that everyone else must be okay with it. I am a new user, and have created several accounts according to various needs (2 business, 1 personal). I took for granted that I would be able to edit comments! That you wouldn't be taking away rights I already have natively! If I discovered this serious flaw in the service and NOT also discovered this question and your openness to reconsider, I would have just left quietly without making a sound. Please don't count silence for approval, acceptance, or even disinterest. Most people who are dissatisfied just quietly leave without complaining. It would be a serious error to not factor those people into your final decision.

Thanks, bblboy. I did ask Alltel about it and they said they support it and the problem must be my phone (Treo 650). I went in to the local store and the guys there proved they were able to receive them just fine, so I guess it is my phone. I wanted to upgrade anyway, so now I just have one more reason to.

It's possible that your phone company does not support the @ character. See here:

http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

I've had this problem from day 1. I'm guessing, then, that the same is true for Alltel? Hmmm. Will have to give contacting them a shot.