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  1. neo: How do you fix this stuff? Is it mostly a matter of banging on WordPress support?

  2. Huxley:

    Unfortunately, WordPress support is just a forum, and very unresponsive.

    Usually it’s the host that helps. Or a friend.

  3. Sure enough, somebody else’s user name and email address are showing in my autofill box. How weird.

  4. Sure enough, somebody else’s username and email address were showing when I first scrolled down to the comment box. (Not a username I recognized, by the way). I manually changed the info back to my own, but used a different email address than the one I usually use, and posted a comment — which hasn’t shown up yet. Maybe it won’t. Very weird. After that, my normal username and email address reappeared on their own. Wonder if this comment will appear?

  5. Keep swinging Neo…that dragon ain’t dead yet… ‘cos now I think I’ve just been given your Yahoo address & I’m pretty sure you don’t want us having your Yahoo address.

    I’m happy to forget I ever saw it…I may be cranky at times but nefarious never.

  6. That is bizarre. I could never have my own blog because this kind of stuff would drive me mad.

  7. Testing
    Mrs. Whatsit autofilled
    Somebody elses e-mail
    But I’m really Ed Bonderenka

  8. It’s like some sort of French farce.

    An unfunny one.

    That’s not my email address you’re seeing, by the way. Another weird glitch.

  9. Hmm…now I’m Mrs Whatsit.

    It’s hard for me to imagine how one fixes a bug like this at the blogger level.

    Flush caches? Restore possibly corrupt databases? Reboot servers? Wait for WordPress its rollback its most recent changes?

    It doesn’t seem the sort of thing to be fixed by changing dashboard settings.

  10. Neo,

    The Yahoo email I was seeing had Kaufman in it so that was what made me wonder if it was yours.

    Once I commented and used a made up email it seems to be OK for me.

  11. I think I want to be Griffin now…seems a fairly clever resident around these parts.

    But ultimately I’d like to be me again.
    I’m pulling for you Neo…Yes. You. Can!

  12. I’m having the internet version of multiple personality disorder. These comments aren’t all by me. Or are they? I’m so confused.

  13. I seem to be huxley at the moment.

    Though I suppose that could change. I hope it’s all working out.

    As a tech guy, I am curious what made the difference.

  14. A quite wonderful digital disorder.
    For a brief moment I was Sgt. Mom, now I’m back to being huxley, another erroneous honor. Digital transgender!
    Yes, let’s put our 100% trust, our lives, our futures into the digital realm.
    We’ll see how this posts.

  15. In retrospect, it cracks me up that even though we probably all saw only the same couple of thread comments – before finding out that there were many more posted up that had been theretofore invisible – that the ‘Je Suis Charlie’ theme or a variant, apparently popped independently into so many different heads once the false-name posting problem became obvious to a particular commenter.

    Same phenomenon, same reaction.

    I’ll think twice before delivering an obvious quip next time.

    Those who held their fire will be patting themselves on the back about now.

  16. I saw the false name/email address once on my tablet (Kindle Fire). I hit refresh and it disappeared. I’m on my laptop now and I am getting blank fields. We’ll see what appears after I post this comment.

  17. Oh well, a previous comment hasn’t shown up but neither did someone else’s name & email. But, I did put in a bad email address. Here is try #2

  18. My sense of identity is somewhat shaken as a result of all of these people reporting that they are, at least temporarily, me. Meanwhile, as of 4/25, my own autofill spaces are showing up blank. I filled them in with a fake email address and we’ll see what happens once I post this.

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