Where is my blog post? Awaiting Moderation I hope?

you have to sign in, but you can make up any name you like, what's to keep people from using others' SL names and making malicious comments?

don't you think this is a bit obnoxious and uncool? especially for an official LINDEN LAB blog?

You have made an already unpleasant experience even worse.

1) I use a Hotmail account for 95% of my email correspondence. It will not accept a Hotmail address to signup.

2) Having faffed around to get through the procedure to get a password, the password will NOT work. It logs in fine, then says I have to be logged in to post, and just goes in an endless loop. Clearing cookies gives me one more opportunity but it still will not work.

3) Anyone can sign up with any name, if you must have security there then it must be tied to your SL account - but because of the insecurity and risk of that, must not be used.

4) My identifying SL name is "Lewis Nerd". I am unable to use any name because it refuses to accept spaces, thus making my user name look silly. Should I just make up a random word, and post as an alt, like so many others do?

5) Are you deliberately stopping people posting comments on the blog by making it now virtually impossible to do so, thus sanitising it and making a fake 'all is well' worldview for investors?

6) This is a further nail in the community coffin.

7) We did not ask for a blog. We did not ask for a 'secure signup'. We are not asking for you to get rid of the blog and return to the forums - WE ARE DEMANDING IT.

Lewis

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I agree with everything Lewis has said. I don't want the blog and now I can't sign up and post comments either. Of course you'll be able to leave comments open in hectic times because nobody will be able to register. Can someone post a list of e-mail providers that are accepted?

It does not work.

I went through the obligatory blog signup, even though I absolutely DO NOT want my very own Blog.

Unlike Lewis, I figured out how to make my displayed name show as "Ceera Murakami", by editing my 'nickname' to that...

I made precisely ONE personal blog post, informing people that they should just move on, because there will be no more Blog entries from me, and stating the fact that my Blog exists only so I can reply to the Linden Lab Second Life Blog. Then I locked comments on that post.

I come back to your precious Blog, and it still won't allow me to comment!

I AM logged in! It DOES NOT WORK. I click "You must be logged in to comment" and it takes me right back to the same page. Maybe it works for people who already had Blogs. Maybe it takes an hour or a day or gods knows how long for Wordpress to tell YOUR blog that I have an account with them... I don't really care. The point is that you go through the signup, follow all the required steps, and the door remains firmly locked in your face.

I agree 100% with Lewis that allowing anyone to make any name they choose is the most stupid, insecure method of account creation that I can imagine for your community.

WHAT is to prevent someone from calling themselves "Hacker Linden", and spamming your Blog? Nothing.

What is to prevent them from impersonating any person in SL that they choose? Nothing.

What is there to make me the least bit interested in continuing to bother with YOUR Blog?

You guessed it.

Nothing.

BRING BACK THE GENERAL FORUMS, AND MODERATE THEM! This BLOG is DEAD!

I refuse to read or comment in that Blog after this.

Dammit, I have TRIED do use your blog, but this is the last straw. If I need to communicate with Linden Labs, I guess I'll just have to e-mail your employees directly.

Though right now, I don't know why I should bother. You have made it VERY clear - you do NOT want us to reply!

{EDIT} My Win XP / IE6 system can NOT comment on the SL Blog, although it can access my Wordpress Blog just fine. My Mac and Safari, on the other hand, can post blog comments! {/EDIT}

Thanks. Registration was easy.

My only suggestion would be to maintain some kind of channel for people to note if someone has "beaten them" to their SL name...and some sort of alternative id scheme....


Thanks, though. I really appreciate how easy that was, and I am looking forward to stability in times of crisis.

It's official - you're retarded.

As if the 'free and clear' signup for SL with no accoutability wasn't enough (notice how many grid attacks you're dealing with now?), theres now no mechanism to see if the person registering is the actual SL personna.

I for one won't be signing up somewhere else to communicate with LL.. so feel free to disregard anything that looks like mine.

I'll ask here:

Why are you taking steps backward in regard to opening the lines of communication between Residents and Lindens? Are you too busy trying to hunt down annonymous grid attackers? Are we no longer fun to talk to? Third party signup to reply on your 'Official Blog' is simply outrageous. We're residents with accounts, why not listen to those instead of making us open another?

Where is my blog post? I posted it over an hour ago. It was a bit of a vent about how hard it was to sign up for comments on the blog but also gave information on how people who are having trouble can get through the process easier, questions about whether or not some changes could be made, and suggestions on how to make it more user friendly. Please tell me that my post wasn't censored because it had a negative tone. You need some serious feedback about the problems going on with the blog since the switch over and since I suspect that I am one of the few that were having trouble to make it through to being able to comment I hope that my post is eventually put up.

Why doesn't it say "awaiting moderation" anymore? Is there some way we can find out if our posts are censored or awaiting moderation? How long does the moderation take?

I'm already very sour on the blogs because I can't ever find anything I'm looking for, I REALLY disliked the process I had to go through to register to be able to post comments, and now after putting a lot of time into a post that I intended to be helpful in providing feedback about some SERIOUS problems with the current sign-in processes of the blog it's just not there and no sign of it ever being there...

Where are the "open lines of communication" that LL says they are so in favor of?

It just occurred to me that since I had so much trouble just getting to the "post reply" box on the blog that perhaps there is some other error with my account keeping my posts from showing up, if that is the case I am sorry for going off, but I'd still like to know what's up...

I registered for blog comments easily and just fine, I clicked the "gimme a blog" option, I even changed my password easily, yet my comments have not been showing up on the blog...any ideas?

How about a "blog issue" forum since there are so many with the recent changes? I'd love to find out why my posts aren't going up at all...

Music, I've merged your two threads together, as they seem to be on a related topic.

I believe you're talking about a comment to a recent blog post, but I'm not sure. If you mean you attempted to post to the Official Linden Lab Blog, I don't believe that will work. You are however free to post to your own Blog and I believe several Residents have begun doing that already. I'll ask Torley, who is leading the Blog charge to take a look at this question as well.

I've merged all of these -- I am SOOOO sorry for the problems you guys had. Required registration for commenting on the blog is OFF again (same way it was before):

http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/10/09/required-registrations-for-commenting-are-again-turned-off/

Again, very very sorry for the suckage and woes you experienced trying to give us feedback!