Is someone flagging or dismissing my comments?

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/27/2018 at 12:00 • Filed to: kinja, kinja'd, kinja help

This is getting weird.

I’ve already e-mailed Kinja Support, but is anyone else experiencing this too? Random comments of mine are disappearing from the main articles. No combination of “show more comments”, “load more comments”, “show pending”, “view all replies”, or “show more replies” will reveal them.

Clearing cache and cookies doesn’t help. Nor does enabling or disabling the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! browser extension. I’ve even tried using different browsers on different devices, and I’ve still got multiple comments hidden from view.

The only way that I can access these comments is through a permalink. In most cases, I can get to them through my profile page. I don’t think I’ve ever had a comment dismissed or flagged because well frankly I don’t post crap that would earn such a reaction. Besides, you’re supposed to get a warning notification when that happens, right? I’ve never seen it.

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! was a reply to someone who commented on my post. Try finding it !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . I don’t know why it’s not appearing, but I can tell you for sure that I did NOT flag or dismiss my own comment, not even accidentally.

Now usually, you can find all of your comments through your profile’s “discussions” page. But I’ve found that (at least) one of my comments can’t even be accessed from my profile at all. If you follow !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , it should be queued up to comments of mine from last month. Look at the first permalink (dated !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ). It displays the comment preview, but clicking on it won’t take you to the comment itself. It just loads the main article.

I distinctly remember that before that comment became inaccessible, it had garnered a few replies, but I can’t find any remnants of that conversation anymore. My permalink is broken and I don’t have the permalinks to those replies. Even the comment preview on that discussions page doesn’t show the “speech bubble” icon underneath the star, indicating that it had replies.

Actually, wait, let me try something...

Okay, well Kinja won’t let me give you a link to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , but if I look back far enough into my notification log, I can find a couple of those replies. But only in preview form. I can’t read the full comments, nor can I tell if they received replies of their own. Clicking on them does nothing but load the main article, keeping those comments hidden just like mine.

What the heck is going on? My comments in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! are invisible from the main article too.

Have you felt that any of your recent comments have been ignored? Check back on them. Maybe it’s just that nobody ever saw them. Maybe they’re just Kinja’d...?

EDIT: I’ve been able to get some comments to display by leaving pending replies turned off. Which is weird, because showing pending comments used to be the only way to show ALL comments.

DISCUSSION (42)

Shoop > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:02

Nobody comment on this

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:02

I don’t know, since I don’t comment of FP anymore. But my guess is maybe there’s a max amount of comments an article can hold? Because there’s a stupid amount of comments on FP now.

Party-vi > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:04

Kinja’d. I can’t find permalinked comments in Jalopnik articles either.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
02/27/2018 at 12:04

Edit (well won’t let me): That’s stupid, because now that I think of it. Jalopnik gets way less comments than pretty much any other Kinja blog. So if there’s a limit I doubt Jalopnik hits it.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Shoop
02/27/2018 at 12:05

Well...

Urambo Tauro > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
02/27/2018 at 12:05

A couple hundred comments is nothing. I’ve seen Kinja handle more than a thousand.

Mercedes Streeter > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:07

Dismissed comments still have permalinks. The only comments you will not be able to find in your own commenting history are ones from deleted threads or were deleted because they were flagged.

That said, it looks like you’re just getting hardcore Kinja’d. :/

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:07

I can’t even log into the FP. Weird stuff.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:07

Kinja has been doing some weird stuff with comments. I had a similar thing happen with a comment on a post I made on LaLD a couple weeks (?) ago.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:08

I can’t comment on FP anymore, it comes up gray and the people I respond to don’t even get notifications that I responded to them, tested with E90M3 a while back. Fuck it, I just spend all my time on Oppo.

Urambo Tauro > Party-vi
02/27/2018 at 12:09

Permalinks in general tend to work just fine for me. I’ve only noticed a few random ones that won’t work. But who knows- I guess I’d have to check comments one-at-a-time to find out just how bad it is.

b33g33 > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:11

This is why I don’t comment anymore. They still haven’t figured out how to stabilize the comments and, let’s admit it, that’s the main reason for most of us “veterans” to still be here.

I have trouble logging in sometime. Comments go away. Get multi-posted etc.

AOL-owned sites have more stable platforms!

Urambo Tauro > b33g33
02/27/2018 at 12:12

I had some trouble logging in a while back, and have resorted to leaving it logged in. Not really a solution...

Future next gen S2000 owner > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:13

Did you make your daily sacrifice to the Kinja lords?

ttyymmnn > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:13

Kinja'd!!!

Urambo Tauro > Future next gen S2000 owner
02/27/2018 at 12:14

Dammit. She told me she was a virgin.

Urambo Tauro > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
02/27/2018 at 12:14

That sounds even worse.

Urambo Tauro > Mercedes Streeter
02/27/2018 at 12:16

The Kinja team has been trying to help me for the last few weeks. No luck yet.

LOREM IPSUM > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:18

Since we’re talking Kinja, can anyone explain the significance of the Staff/Community categorization of comments on Oppo? It would seem obvious, but appears to categorize people all willy nilly.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:19

They always do

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:20

havent had any of mine dissapear... but ive had some replys that were only visible if i clicked on them in notifications.. were not visible if i just looked thru the thread

kinja doing some very strange stuff lately

Urambo Tauro > LOREM IPSUM
02/27/2018 at 12:21

You are “staff”, but only on your own posts. As the author of this post, I am “staff” on this post. Oppo admin and Oppo moderators are “staff” on all Oppo posts. Any comments recommended or responded to by staff are included among staff comments. At least, I think that’s how it works.

fintail > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
02/27/2018 at 12:23

Sounds like you were ghosted. Did you castigate Tesla back in the day, or point out errors by the bearded millennial stereotype wikipedia experts?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > LOREM IPSUM
02/27/2018 at 12:27

“Staff” shows any comments that the author of the post has made, starred, or replied to.

gmctavish needs more space > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:30

I don’t have that problem, but I still don’t have notifications on mobile, as well as all the usual stuff

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > fintail
02/27/2018 at 12:32

I’ve hated on Tesla once at the beginning when I got commenting privileges, and hat was it. They didn’t gray me then, and that was over a year ago.

Ash78, voting early and often > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 12:36

Commentrader.com/urambosteer

fintail > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
02/27/2018 at 12:50

Maybe you offended the wrong “editor”.

No loss, it seems to be competing with Youtube comment sections these days.

Wacko > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
02/27/2018 at 13:02

looks like you were BallaBanned

i called him a MasterBaiter once and got banned and sent back to the grays after the ban was lifted.

Warning FP authors are Thin Skinned

XJDano > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 13:41

This is crap.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 13:41

You’ve got a potential position on my “staff?”

Derpwagon > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 13:48

You must have said something that one of the main page authors didn’t like so they shadowbanned the fuck out of you without notification. It happened to me IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOUUUUUU.

BigBlock440 > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 14:45

Besides, you’re supposed to get a warning notification when that happens, right? I’ve never seen it.

No, you do not get any notification when a comment has been dismissed.

I’ve noticed that the “show more replies” disappears when I click “show pending”. I used to read the grey replies, but now I can’t.

This comment was a reply to someone who commented on my post. Try finding it without the permalink .

I see the same comments on both links, I’m not sure which one is not showing up for you.

Urambo Tauro > BigBlock440
02/27/2018 at 15:47

If you look at the thread where I’ve posted a close-up of the studs (1:12pm), the main article is loading only one reply (1:15). But I have more comments in that thread, dated 1:42 and 2:19 . I can’t see them without a permalink. But you can?

Are you sure that dismissals don’t trigger a notification? How else is the user supposed to know when they’ve crossed a line? I deserve to know what I did wrong.

BigBlock440 > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 15:55

Yep, I see both of those. I have to click “show all replies”, but can’t click “show pending”. If I click “show pending”, I can’t expand any of the comment threads.

Good point. These hexes look to be about 7 or 8mm. Not sure how much torque those keys can take, but this car calls for about 80 lb-ft at the lug bolts.

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Huh, so I guess they don’t need to be torqued down quite so much after all. The set used in this article calls for 30-35 lb-ft, and the listing for this set says 15Nm. I guess that threadlocker is even more critical than I thought.

As for the dismissal thing, I’m 99.99% sure I’ve had comments dismissed, mostly on the other sites because lots of people are thin skinned and don’t like opposing viewpoints or being told they’re wrong. It would be an odd coincidence that only those comments disappeared, and sometimes after they’ve got replies and stars. Not once have I received a notification that a comment’s been dismissed. A thing that does happen when a comment is dismissed is that any replies to it or downstream of it also disappear. Don’t know if it’s any part of your problem though.

Urambo Tauro > BigBlock440
02/27/2018 at 16:06

Ok, there must be some kind of compatibility mix-up between the comment display buttons. I can see those comments without using permalinks if I load the comments exactly as you said.

See, when I’m not using the Kinjamprove extension, I never even bother using the “show all ## replies” button, because I want to load EVERYTHING, even the pending comments. But this throws a wrench into that whole technique. Apparently some comments are only visible through the pending button, while others are only visible by keeping pending comments hidden.

I’ll forward this to the Kinja team. Hopefully it points them in the right direction and they can get this all straightened out.

Urambo Tauro > BigBlock440
02/27/2018 at 16:22

On second thought, maybe it’s not that simple. I still can’t get my comment on the Subaru article to load, not even through a “show all ## replies” button. Avoiding pending comments doesn’t help either. I wonder if that trick only works when the page loads staff comments first? The Subaru article doesn’t have any staff comments, so it automatically goes straight to “community”.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Wacko
02/27/2018 at 19:27

Sniff.... They don’t OrLove me anymore....

Lol, that’s one big serving of bullshit. That sucks.

BigBlock440 > Urambo Tauro
02/27/2018 at 21:01

I’ve just come to accept kinja changes like the weather, just wait a few days and it’ll be different.

www.maxloh.com > BigBlock440
07/04/2018 at 02:02

testing 123 (I made multiple accounts to test why all of my comments are “pending approval”). I will delete this comment after I figure it out

EDIT: This comment is now in the state as described in the original article. It shows as “pending approval” if I visit it from my permalink. If I try to find it in the comments section, it’s simply non-existent.

Does anyone know the cause of this and how to avoid it?????

Evega > Urambo Tauro
09/12/2018 at 09:24

I feel the same, all my comments still pending.

Kinja'd!!!

Urambo Tauro > Evega
09/12/2018 at 11:41

The greys are no fun, but I’d rather be grey than invisible.

Kinja'd!!!

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