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Same thing here. My experience with this feature has been one-and-out, namely that the very first comment I asked to tweet was tweeted. All subsequent comments were not, though I instructed ID to do so.

The password is correct and I'm the blog admin. Frankly, this has been going on for awhile..

While I feel I deserve the phantom reputation points, I have not merited them.

The funny thing with my situation is that, while I did get a "+1" for every comment I made on my blog for the past few months, they didn't sum up until today.

Here are three of the recent troubled comment permalinks:

http://mileposting.blogspot.com/2009/...

http://mileposting.blogspot.com/2009/...

http://mileposting.blogspot.com/2009/...

There are plenty more examples available, Michael, should you need them. After all I have like 26 rep points from the 26 comments I wrote on my blog.....

OOOOH ok I get you. In that case, so far so good.

Those permalinks point to threads where comments are ==restored== Nothing has disappeared yet, after about 5-6 refreshes.

Glad my toiling here might spare someone else's! – miles, on May 20, 2009 04:49

Hey Michael, I'm glad to see you guys were able to hammer something out.

But more importantly, you've succeeded!!! Thus far, all you claim here has proven true. Of course, it remains to be seen whether the resurrected threads will hold up over time. I feel good with my chances.

As Michael says, adding a reply to an affected thread indeed recovers lost comments. Just for the record, Michael's prescription does not mean simply submitting a new comment to the post; you will have to post a new reply to each affected thread, literally.

So far so good for me. I hope it will go as smoothly for my kindred spirits here in this support thread.

I feel bad for the other folks here who get a lot of comments, seeing as how you might want to rebuild your conversation tree by hand. A small price, though, for restoring order proper. Luckily I only had a handful of comments heh.

Michael, as you requested, here are the permalinks to my parent comments which were originally troubled:

http://mileposting.blogspot.com/2009/...

http://mileposting.blogspot.com/2009/...

http://mileposting.blogspot.com/2009/...

Hope these help. I trust three is enough for your case studies? There are more if you need -_-

Thanks man! If things somehow fall apart again, I'll be back here soon enough.

Michael,

I don't know if this helps your analysis, but one of the replies in the following post seems to be ok and shows up consistently. I did not use any of the workaround methods suggested above. The rest of the replies, however, remain invisible.

The single reply that does show up has only the text "placehold" in it, aptly named for its function until you guys resolve this problem..

http://mileposting.blogspot.com/2009/...

Option 1 kind of works but is unreliable. When I deleted the reply-to-reply comment, both comments disappeared in most cases. Also see the post from poor "candorville" above.. this workaround might have done much to cascade his entire system! (my condolences) – miles, on May 14, 2009 20:44

Yay! I'm very pleased that "The company is working on this problem." That tag only took 21 days to inspire -_- Well we're counting on you Michael..... – miles, on May 14, 2009 20:43

In the interest of focusing our ID technicians' attention on this problem, I've put together a brief compendium of our common woes, observations and frustration reported in this thread:

-Comments that disappear are mostly replies to comments that DO appear
-These disappearing replies DO show up on the post PRIOR to a page refresh, after which it disappears
-Some users report that these comments reappear and disappear intermittently (sometimes afflicted by weird slash marks)

-Replying to a reply that has disappeared, interestingly, compels both replies to show up (at least temporarily)
-When this problem occurs, text is persistently leftover in the comment input box

-Everything looks OK in the ID backend, i.e., all comments (replies or otherwise) are present in the system, as well as in the HTML source of afflicted pages
-Resetting Wordpress sync does NOT solve this problem. After all, Blogspot users are also affected.

-On my blog, an ID technician managed to "fix" one of my problem posts to the point where a disappeared reply now remains visible permanently. However, new replies made to this post do NOT show up, suggesting that the problem was never "fixed" in the first place, only band-aided.

I hope this summary will help rally affected users to this support thread, as well as assist ID technicians with cataloging the knowledge herein and prioritizing this problem. If anyone notices anything missing here, please add to this list.

ID, please let us know of any progress. This is systematic, and the number of affected users continue to grow.

Hey, we are having the same problem over on this thread:

http://getsatisfaction.com/intensedeb...

This has been going for about a month; ID is really dragging its feet on this one. I suggest you add your voice to the mix.. perhaps it will help compel ID to at least acknowledge the problem.

Hey, we are having the same problem over on this thread:

http://getsatisfaction.com/intensedeb...

This has been going for about a month; ID is really dragging its feet on this one. I suggest you add your voice to the mix.

I agree, Carrie. Heck I'd be happier if my comments reappeared even sometimes.

Well I suppose our problems could be considered the same to ID technicians -_- – miles, on May 12, 2009 04:32

Hey you're right, you've fixed the comments on one of my posts. I thank you for that.

HOWEVER, I tried posting a new reply-comment and the SAME DARN thing happened: it does NOT show up. Please see:

http://mileposting.blogspot.com/2009/...

Furthermore, this problem still afflicts my most recent blog post: the reply-comments do NOT show up. Please see:

http://mileposting.blogspot.com/2009/...

Can I expect this problem to persist, Michael? Be honest with me; let's not waste each other's time. – miles, on May 12, 2009 04:18

Michael, any interim suggestions for Blogspot users?

For the record, I am ABLE to receive and post new comments (as far as I know), but I am UNABLE to view any comments threaded as a reply. – miles, on May 11, 2009 18:24

Michael: That would work, except that the comments that I want to delete do NOT show up on my comment section! This is, of course, related to another bug I submitted about two weeks ago:

http://getsatisfaction.com/intensedeb...

Please advise as to whether I can expect this problem to be solved! – miles, on May 07, 2009 22:27

I am also unable to delete comments in the ID back end. I use Blogger.