torsdag den 3. juli 2025

WordPress ~ krigen fortsætter
WordPress ~ the Cold War continues

Recently, like the last five days or so, when trying to ceomment on a WordPress blog, the system asks me to log in to my WP account.

I do not have a WP account, but I had - like 10 years ago or more - on the same e-mail address I'm still using. I deleted this account for two reasons.
1) I could not wrap my head around blogging in WP.
2) it tried to take over all my commenting.
It is such a long time ago that I communicated with a real, live human being to close my account down.

Since then I have had no big problems with WP-blogs. That is, until now.

WP-help is now an AI, requiring you to log in to your account - which I do not have - or to have a paid WP account, and I'm not going to pay in order to re-close an already closed account.

Ergo to all owners of WP blogs, you'll see me commenting with an alternative e-mail address. I'm not scamming, I've not been hacked. It's only WPs latest antics.

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I den seneste tid, de sidste fem dage eller deromkring, har jeg mødt et sært problem, når jeg forsøger at kommentere på en WordPress-blog. Systemet beder mig om at logge ind på min WP-konto.

Jeg har ikke en WP-konto, men jeg havde en for 10 år siden eller mere på den samme e-mailadresse, som jeg stadig bruger. Jeg slettede denne konto af to grunde.
1) Jeg kunne overhocedet ikke forstå, hvordan man blogger i WP.
2) Det forsøgte at overtage alle mine kommentarer.
Det er så længe siden, at jeg kommunikerede med et rigtigt, levende menneske for at lukke min konto.
 
Siden da har jeg ikke haft de store problemer med WP-blogs. Det vil sige, indtil nu.

WPs hjælpefunktion er nu en AI, der kræver, at man logger ind på sin konto - som jeg ikke har - eller har en betalt WP-konto, og jeg har ikke tænkt mig at betale for at lukke en allerede lukket konto igen.

Ergo til alle ejere af WP-blogs: I vil se mig kommentere med en alternativ e-mailadresse. Jeg er ikke ude på numre, jeg er ikke blevet hacket. Det skyldes bare WPs seneste sære påfund.

4 kommentarer:

  1. I kept my WP account, although I don't post there, so I could comment more easily on WP blogs. It doesn't always help, sometimes it puts all my comments straight to moderation even with my account.

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    1. :D For me it was more complicated having a WP account - I do not remember why any more, it's been so long. Now I do not know what to do. How do you close an already closed account?

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  2. I do find it a bit difficult to post comments on some wordpress blogs. And most of them are moderating comments so I can never tell if my comments go through or not -sometimes I check, sometimes I don't.

    I haven't accounted any AI with wordpress yet but mostly I never log into anything when I comment on a wordpress blog. I've not been asked to log in at all but with my bad luck, maybe it will happen later.

    Have a lovely day.

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    1. Maybe they are on a spree to get back old users ... you'll see ;)

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