The most popular blog platforms I’ve come across so far are Blogger and WordPress. I myself use WordPress and so have absolutely no problem in ‘liking’ blog posts and leaving comments to show my appreciation for other people’s words. However, in recent weeks I’ve had more and more trouble posting any sort of comment to a blog run on a Blogger account.
For reasons that I can’t understand, any Blogger account will allow me to enter my comment, log in with my openID (in this case, WordPress) and hit the ‘post comment’ button. But rather than posting the comment or even holding it for moderation, the site then rejects the comment and throws it back out at me. If there is a CAPTCHA phrase, the site point blank refuses to accept what I type, no matter if its correct or wildly incorrect. I’ve sat on one site and tried thirteen times (I counted) and still couldn’t leave a comment.
I only mention this because there are several Blogger-blogs in the last three weeks that I have been desperate to leave a comment for and I’ve not been able to. Which is horribly frustrating. 
Is anyone else having this problem? Is there a solution? Is there something in the setting of these blogs which prevents non-google folk from posting?
If you have a Blogger account, I urge you to check your settings. Having a look at the Q&A on Google, it appears that to enable comments from outside Blogger you have to arrange your settings like this:
Failing to do so will cut you off from lots of people who want to communicate with you but aren’t allowed because they cannot authenticate themselves.
Of course if you don’t mind anonymous comments then by all means pick the first option, however, in the case of most folks, I’ll bet you want to know the comment is from a real person, right? So pick the second one.
Please, please spread the word! I can’t possibly be the only person experiencing this problem and its to be benefit of all if we can let folks know there’s something wrong. Incidentally I can’t find a way to put a problem to Google myself without opening an account with Blogger, which I’ve no intention of doing (at least just yet). Two blogs is more than enough for me to handle right now!
Help me out people!
I know you commented on mine recently, and that’s how my settings have been set up. Have you had any other troubles with Ouch?
No, Ouch seems to be one of the few I can use no problem. It’s others that I’ve not commented on before.
That’s why I thought it was me at first, but it can’t be every time.
…can it? O.o
Right Mrs! My blog wasn’t set to what you’ve said above…so I’ve changed it. Come on over soon and leave me a comment. Lets test the water…
Maria
Can I be included in this Comment test. madlynormal.blogspot.com I’d be most happy to do the same for anyone else.
I don’t know how many people are still keeping an eye on these comments, but I’d be happy to test them out myself? Give me a little while to see if I can leave comment for you.
I feel I should mention… since this time I have been able to post on very many blogger/eblogger and other blogs of the same sort of type.
The problem seems to come up less and less, but I still haven’t figured out what it is. -_-
Aaah well; the search for truth continues!
Yesssss!!!!! Thank you for addressing the problem. I feel so cut off from my Blogger friends.
Hi Jennifer
I must admit, it seems a little better now that I’ve said this, but all the blogs I’ve commented on recently are new. I find that if I try to use my OpenID, there’s still no joy, but I eventually manage it with Name/URL options instead. Not ideal, but at least I can leave a comment.
I’ve opened an account with blogger now – for another project of mine – so I’m going to see if I can use that to investigate what is going on between WordPress and Blogger. If I find out anything I’ll post it here as well.
*fingers crossed*
I have been experiencing this for the last few weeks and it is extremely frustrating! I would really to leave comments and find a solution for this. I feel pretty helpless:(
Me too.
I’m still hunting for a solution but so far I can’t find anything. As soon as I do though, I’ll update here in the comments or write a new post for it.
There are so many bloggers on Blogger that I want to interact with that its driving me nuts that I can’t. I almost gave up.
I’m still searching too. I have tried to contact reCAPTCHA directly, but they have no contact information. It seems from my research, that I may have been identified as a false positive for spam and that might be why I can’t enter in the letters to the box. I have heard this happens occasionally and the only thing I know to do is click on the question mark symbol to contact them. So far there has been no response from them and I have done that at least once a day almost everyday for the last few weeks. What a bummer.
Wow, its shocking that they’re not getting in contact with you. Particularly after such persistent questioning. Sounds to me like they know full well there is a problem and are almost hoping that it will go away if they ignore it. Which is silly, because clearly it won’t. o.O
Oh dear.
Glad to know I’m not the only one having this problem It’s frustrating as there are a few blogs, important to me, on blogger. I will keep looking for a solution and if I find it will post it on my wordpress blog.
Its kinda comforting knowing its not just me, but at the same time, I wish it wasn’t an issue.
and why Blogger couldn’t post the fix is beyond me!
I wonder… My laptop is already set up that way and I’m still having trouble.
I’ll have to check my desktop to see if that makes a difference.
I’ve been having this same problem for MONTHS now! It is the MOST frustrating. I have a Blogger account AND a Typepad acct and neither will work. I’ve also tried all the other choices in the pull-down menu, but NOTHING works.
here is the fix for this: http://crowingcrone.com/2012/09/21/comments-on-blogger/
Ooo thanks. Let’s check it out.
It worked!!!!! It worked!!!! THANK YOU, Joss!!!
Oh good! I’m glad you’ve found something to help you out. ^_^
Yeah!! It worked. I’ve been so frustrated in trying to comment on blogs and I have a blog on blogger. Now I need to hug someone.
I can comment on my own blog but not on others !
That’s weird. I wouldn’t have thought you’d have problems if you used blogger yourself!
Not sure this will help, but it helped me a lot:
http://www.tech.spoilertv.com/2012/05/troubleshooting-comments-for-blogger.html#.UGHR0K74at8
Hmmm, I’ll take up its tips and see what I get out of it.
I know this question is long past, but since I have a blogger account I’ll give you my reason. Until today I have anyone could post, but since I only get comments from other bloggers, and a persistent anonymous I disabled it. I picked all registered users, but I don’t know if that means from any blog host. I hope it does as I want to widen my audience, but I didn’t want to make then have to use the “make sure your human” every-time. I wish there was a way to validate a user just once. Perhaps someone has made that suggestion and maybe I’ll add mine. Since I don’t have a WordPress anymore I’m registering using my Twitter account, but if you would please test my site to see if WordPress accounts can leave comments at my site (: http://www.deconstructingmyillusions.com/
Well I tried it. Seems to have worked ok. Feel free to nudge me if you would like me to test it again.
Hi, just came across this trying to figure the exact same thing, why I could not comment on certain blogger blogs and it’s incredibly frustrating. I do see other blogger blogs that allow you to put in simple name and url details while others I don’t see at all.
Oh and I am also a member of 20sb, just thought I’d throw that out there.
Yeah, with all the comments on this post now we still don’t seem to have it figured out. It seems to me that Google is just glitchy in some regard and would prefer to have everyone run a blog through Blogger. With my second blog – which is on Blogger – I have no such issues with posting comments.
The mystery remains!
Oh and I haven’t logged into 20sb for ages! I really should get on with it as I shan’t be 20s for much longer. I’ll look you up.
Thank you all (above) for the comments – I seem to have solved at least one of my commenting blocks using OpenID thanks to a link on your page. I’m fairly new to Blogger and have been trying to comment on other Blogger accounts.
Linda
aka: barnsleyhistorian.blogspot.co.uk/
I’m glad you’ve found the post helpful. I mainly wrote it for the sake of a massive rant, but people coming by do seem to have found help here. Which makes me happy.
Thanks for stopping by. I’ll be sure to check out your blog later. ^_^
Please comment on my blog. I can’t seem to be able to see comments on it.
defitech.blogspot.com…
I went to comment but Blogger tells me the blog has gone.
is everything okay?
Sorry. I deleted the blog already. Frustrated with it.
Sent from my iPhone
I hope you have better luck with another provider if you decide to take that route.
I’ve had the exact same problem for weeks now, thinking of leaving blogger cause it’s so frustrating!!!
Crazy isn’t it? I have a second blog over there and I’ve pretty much abandoned it because I can’t get a back and forth dialogue going. Very sad.
I’ve just run out of ideas now; no idea what else to try.
I wish I knew about this before i set up my blog…
Thank you for this post. I’m a wordpress user and blogger will let me write comment, but not sign in via wordpress. Grrrr At least now I know its not just some error on my part.
Glad it’s been of help.
I still can’t figure it out, but at least it’s helping somebody!
You’re right, it didn’t solve the problem but helped me psychologically
Lol, good good. Sometimes that’s just as necessary!
Hi Ileandra,
I have that problem too sometimes. It is so much easier on WordPress!
Sometimes I wonder if Google even wants our custom. Ho hum… WordPress to the rescue!
I am checking if I can comment.
This is not blogger
You should be fine here using the anonymous function. Or your WordPress ID if you’re using WordPress too.
I just tried to comment on 2 different Blogger sites with no luck. I don’t have a blog of my own, and I can’t reach the owner of one of the blogs to ask for help. The other blog didn’t have any clue why I could not comment. Seems like most of her commenters hold Blogger blogs themselves. I tried signing into Google account and becoming a member on the blog, but that did not help either. So frustrating…
Yep. Similar problem with me. In the end I just comment where I can and do most of my following/commenting with other wordpress users. It’s a shame, because there are great blogs on Blogger, but there’s not much else I can do. I’ve run out of things to try.