I don't really have a real post tonight, but I do have a quick question for anyone that might know. Most of the comments that come through the blog go straight to my email, but some don't. Specifically Fuji, Night Owl, and the Diamond King never go to my email when they make comments. I have checked my spam folder and my trash folder and still nothing. This is especially troubling for me because they are 3 of my more chatty commenters. I always enjoy getting comments and responding to them, but I sometimes miss them unless someone else comments after them.
Anyway, my question is, whose end is the problem on? Have i done something wrong? Do any other bloggers have this same problem? Has anyone solved the problem?
Feel free to comment with the answer, but if you are one the three I mentioned, it might take me a little longer to see.
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I'm commenting even though you might not see this for awhile because:
1. I want you to know you aren't crazy, because Fuji's comments have NEVER shown up in my email and I fairly recently noticed the same thing with the Diamond King, so it's not you.
2. I never knew I was one of those people whose comments don't show up in email either! Here I am obsessing with Fuji's comments not showing up and mine are doing the same thing! Obviously, I have no idea what I'm doing to make that happen.
I never see Fuji's comments in my email either. A couple years ago, it was happening with many more of my commenters. Deleting and re-adding my notification email address seemed to help, but it didn't fix Fuji's.
Its really strange, I have the same issue with Night Owl and Fuji, and I think others, but am not sure.
I was never able to determine why.
WTF? Why am I getting blocked? Blogger must hate me. :D
As for your question... I think the only blogger that I don't get email notifications for is Night Owl. I see it when he comments on other blogs, but not mine. It's not that big of an issue though, because I'll catch his comment when I read everyone's comments and write my responses.
To clarify, I see the comments from everyone on the blog immediately when they are made, if I am here. What I am missing is the email. It makes it harder to reply to people's comments because I never know if someone sees my reply on my blog because no one will know that I replied unless they return. When I get comments emailed to me, I can reply to that commenter's email and I know they see it and sometimes conversations begin.
It is not really that big of a deal when just chatting about something, just a slight inconvenience, but it really helps when someone wants a card I have spotlighted on a trade bait post.
I have the same issue. Many of my regular readers/commenters - Fuji, Night Owl, Billy K, Gregory - are somehow not included in email notifications. So I'm initially bummed that my posts have just one comment(because i only got one email) only to check the post and find 5-6 comments waiting for me.
I have the same issue as well, specifically with Fuji. I thought it might have been something I did years ago by mistake (e.g. in email accidentally hit spam or 'mark as junk'), but sounds like it's more widespread. Not sure what's up.
Yay, as an IT guy, I'm finally useful!
So, the easiest thing to check is if those 3 users/emails have anything in common. Are they all gmail, yahoo, etc?
It could be Blogger (owned by Google) is blacklisting various Yahoo IP addresses for example (purely speculation - but I noticed both Night Owl and Fuji have yahoo addresses).
It could also be Google's anti-spam filters are overly aggressive (again, singling out Yahoo mail).
If you guys have alternative email addresses, I'd try emailing each other directly and see if they show up in a reasonable amount of time. If they do, then the problem most likely lies in a "Google vs Yahoo" type situation.
All 3 do have a Yahoo email address, but so do I and my comments on this blog show up in my email. Unless mine just show up in MY blog. Do my comments show up when I make them in anyone else's blog? If they don't we may have a solution.
I have the same issue with the same commenters.
I never get emails when people make comments on my blog. I check my blog daily and check the number of comments on the latest post or any new comments. I thought that is some sort of Blogger option thing to get email notifications or not. If email option is selected it is odd that a handful of emails wouldn't go through. I wonder if it is a specific service provider/ email service (gmail or yahoo...)
hiflew - i get email notifications for your comments (both on this blog and my own)
Well, you guys definitely aren't alone. There's a 250+ comment deep thread in the support pages about not receiving emails when a comment is posted...
https://support.google.com/blogger/forum/AAAAY7oIW-wV611KU-BUOQ
It's dated from 2018, and the comments are pretty 50/50 on whether their fix worked or not. Worth a shot. If not, it's definitely a Blogger issue, and they don't seem to be in a hurry to fix it :(
Same here. Fuji's never show up. Maybe others, I don't really go by my email anymore, I've gotten in the habit of checking the comments on the blogger home page. When I post on someone else's page, I bookmark it and check back to see if there is a response.
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