Annoying Typepad Crap
OK, I know I’m not a Typepad blogger, but I do guest-blog on a few, including two who have left Typepad due to annoying crap. But…I’m fed up with Typepad’s trackback problem.
After Googling around for some answers, I landed here, where this blogger has been emailing them to get answers for a while now. So I followed suit, and filed a support ticket with Typepad.
The response (received quickly, I should note):
Hi Beth,
Thank you for your note and we apologize for the problem.
We appreciate your providing the error message that you
received. This helps us a great deal in determining if an
overly zealous anti-spam filter is causing the problem. We
are looking into the cause of this error message now so
thank you for bringing it to our attention.Thanks,
Laura
Here’s what you need to do. Send trackbacks to Typepad blogs using the Wizbang or Haloscan trackback pingers, and COPY THE ERROR MESSAGE. Don’t send them from within your blog software (i.e. WordPress, MT, Typepad). Send the error message to Typepad! Maybe if enough people do this, the problem will get solved faster. Who knows–it’s worth a try.
Y’know, it’s shi’ite like this–bullshi’ite software issues–that make blogging sometimes a LOT more trouble than it’s worth, and when it even affects those who don’t USE Typepad, it’s inexcusable.
fistfuloffortnights.net says:
If At First You Don’t Succeed
Give away free shi’ite until unsuspecting newbies follow the flock and are willing to pay for the aforementioned shi’ite.
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I have thought about busting out from Typepad, I would like to have popup comments and some other stuff, but, I just do not feel like dealing with the HTML coding for the format. Any suggestions?
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