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wmerydith replied on October 30, 2009 13:55 to the question "Comments Not Showing In Intense Debate Administration Panel" in IntenseDebate:

Michael,

When you go to the dashboard to view comments, if the top blog listed on the right side doesn't have any comments, then you don't see any comments.

So I kept going to this page and thinking there was a bug because I didn't see any comments. It wasn't until that recent post got a comment that I saw one comment. And eventually figured out that the blog posts on the right side were filters for showing comments.

There should be a "show all" or at least a comments count (count of all comments and count by blog). Something to let the user know what in fact they are or arent' seeing.

Thanks! Keep up the great work.

wmerydith marked one of Michael Koenig's replies in IntenseDebate as useful. Michael Koenig replied to the question "Comments Not Showing In Intense Debate Administration Panel".

wmerydith replied on October 28, 2009 02:06 to the question "Comments Not Showing In Intense Debate Administration Panel" in IntenseDebate:

Whoops!

I just figured out that Intense Debate has implemented something new since I last visited. I see now that you have to click on a blog post to see the comments!

I like this feature, but there still should be a way to see ALL comments across the blog.

Thanks!

wmerydith asked a question in IntenseDebate on October 27, 2009 18:12:

Comments Not Showing In Intense Debate Administration Panel

Upgraded to WP 2.8.5. Upgraded to latest version of Intense Debate.

Comments working fine on site: http://fairfieldvoice.com.

But there are not comments showing in my IntenseDebate dashboard.

wmerydith replied on July 24, 2009 14:25 to the question "How do I bulk delete spam comments?" in IntenseDebate:

I do have that setting checked.

So let me ask this, how long do spam comments get kept by ID, and when they are deleted, does that sync with WP so that they are deleted on my WP DB? If that's the case, then what is the number of spam comments that collect before deletion?

wmerydith replied on July 23, 2009 05:06 to the question "How do I bulk delete spam comments?" in IntenseDebate:

To answer your question from the other post, I now have 1200+ spam comments showing in WP admin panel.

So one day, 800+, next day 0, next day 1200+. ??

wmerydith replied on July 22, 2009 00:27 to the question "How do I bulk delete spam comments?" in IntenseDebate:

Well since there are 800+ comments marked "spam", it would take me nearly an hour to delete them all using the method you describe.

The real issue is a combination of spam getting into the WP database and my understanding of what happens to the spam.

For example, the spam coming through (and being marked as spam) is stuff that should be deleted as per my spam settings in ID.

But that spam is getting through to my WP database. Like I said, I had 800+ last night, all of which was from a single hour last night.

This morning I looked and there were only 20 or so spam comments.

What happened to the 800+? Am I misunderstanding the spam system?

Does spam get marked as spam (correctly) and get pushed to the databases (WP and ID) but then routinely get cleaned out (deleted)?

wmerydith replied on July 21, 2009 01:19 to the problem "Spam making it through filters" in IntenseDebate:

Ok so in the time it took to post this, I got 800 more spam comments. So my earlier comment about 1 every 2-5 minutes was way off.

What is going on?

I've got a lot of spam filtering checked - akismet, banned ips, banned keywords . . . it's all coming through!

wmerydith started following the question "massive amounts of spam coming up to moderate on ID." in IntenseDebate.

wmerydith asked a question in IntenseDebate on July 21, 2009 01:13:

How do I bulk delete spam comments?

How do you bulk delete Spam comments?

I want to delete spam comments all at once in ID, and then have them get deleted on ID and then deleted from WP.

wmerydith replied on July 21, 2009 01:12 to the question "Spam getting to WordPress Blogs" in IntenseDebate:

Same here. I'm not sure I understand what the expected behavior is supposed to be either.

If I check all the spam settings, then I expect those comments to go into a spam folder on ID and NOT get passed to my Wordpress DB.

What's happening is I am getting hundreds of spam comments marked as spam put into my WP DB, but with no easy way to delete them.

wmerydith reported a problem in IntenseDebate on July 21, 2009 01:04:

Spam making it through filters

Hundreds of Spam getting through at the rate of 1 per 2-5 minutes.

My site is fairfieldvoice.com.

They are getting flagged as spam, but making it into my Wordpress database.

wmerydith started following the problem "Spam no longer blocked by IntenseDebate" in IntenseDebate.

wmerydith replied on July 15, 2009 21:20 to the question "Intense Debate: Compatibility Issues w/ IE8, MooTabs, Poll Daddy" in IntenseDebate:

Ya that is a lot. 700-800k is being taken by the featured story images. And Intense Debate loads a lot to (I think it's loading the FB connect JS).

wmerydith marked one of Beau Lebens' replies in IntenseDebate as useful. Beau Lebens replied to the problem "Intense Debate Breaking All Links On Site".

wmerydith replied on July 14, 2009 22:26 to the question "Intense Debate: Compatibility Issues w/ IE8, MooTabs, Poll Daddy" in IntenseDebate:

REPRO STEPS:

Use IE8 (with script debugging enabled) and go to http://fairfieldvoice.com/best-of-fai....

The error is:

"this.el is null or not an object mootabs1.2.js, line 20 character 3"

var mootabs = new Class({

initialize: function(element, options) {
this.options = Object.extend({
width: '300px',
height: '200px',
changeTransition: Fx.Transitions.Bounce.easeOut,
duration: 1000,
mouseOverClass: 'active',
activateOnLoad: 'first',
useAjax: false,
ajaxUrl: '',
ajaxOptions: {method:'get'},
ajaxLoadingText: 'Loading...'
}, options || {});

this.el = $(element);
this.elid = element;

this.el.setStyles({ <<<<<<<<<<<< LINE 20
height: this.options.height,
width: this.options.width
});

---------------------------------

What seems to be happening is that Intense Debate is creating a pause or halt in the readiness of the object model. Hence the this.el issue in the MooTabs script.

Unless you've seen this before it's probably best for me to rip out the existing javascript and replace with jquery. I assume Intense Debate is more friendly with JQuery (as most widgets are)?

wmerydith replied on July 14, 2009 22:02 to the problem "Intense Debate Breaking All Links On Site" in IntenseDebate:

Hey, if you're still looking, can you also take a peek at: Javascript Error?

I've narrowed it down to a javascript error but it only seems to come out on pages running Intense Debate.

wmerydith replied on July 14, 2009 22:00 to the problem "Intense Debate Breaking All Links On Site" in IntenseDebate:

Bingo Beau! I added "overflow:hidden" to the comments ID and it appears to be working in FF3.5. Need to reboot and check IE8 again to make sure it isn't broken.

Thanks for the second set of eyes!

wmerydith replied on July 14, 2009 21:57 to the problem "Intense Debate Breaking All Links On Site" in IntenseDebate:

Thanks so much!

I'm looking at what I think you're describing as a flow issue . . .

wmerydith reported a problem in IntenseDebate on July 14, 2009 21:30:

Intense Debate Breaking All Links On Site

Repro steps:
1. Go to http://fairfieldvoice.com/2009/07/14/...
2. Click on links in the post (not in sidebar).
3. Click links at bottom of post to go to next or previous posts.

Anywhere on the site that is using Intense Debate comments will have all links disabled in the post, plus you cannot select text. Please help.

I am using FF3.5.