Why I am not on Blogger much

Note: this blog is exported from Blogger to Facebook and Alive not Dead but will be more relevant to those folks from Blogger who are good enough to read my blogs every now and again.

The problem: I am having problems leaving comments on other people’s blogs. What happens specifically is that I will write in the comment box and then click the submit box for the comment to be published. After I do this the comment box immediately proliferates and throws up another comment box and then another and then another. The computer screen becomes filled with what seems hundreds of these in a couple of minutes. I can’t do any thing else on the computer as any function is immediately cancelled out by yet another box appearing. The only thing I can do is lean on the off button for the computer until it turns off and then start the computer again.

This has been going on for a few months now. At first it was infrequent and seemed only to be happening to a few blogs with the ‘catchpa’ mechanism or what ever it’s called (those funny letters that appear when ever you try to submit a comment to test you out) but lately it has also happened on blogs that don’t have this.

This thing doesn’t happen every time I leave a comment but it has been increasing in frequency and now happens every 3 or so comments I try to leave. It is simply not practical for me to have to turn the computer off every few minutes.

This is not my computer’s problem. I know this because I don’t have the internet on at home and therefore don’t own a computer that I blog on. I use a variety of computers at libraries, internet cafes and sometimes (furtively) at work. This problem has happened on different computers so it must be a problem with the blog somehow.

Does anyone know what is going on? How can I fix it? Can I fix it? Does anyone know of an email address for some kind of IT support / customer service department for Blogger? I have tried looking for one but can’t find it. There are forums where you can leave an account of your problem in the hope that someone will answer and fix it there. However these forums have literally thousands of posts on them and I must admit that I am not hopeful of getting this problem read about and addressed. And on the off chance that someone does read it, that someone may be another member of the public and not someone with any authority to actually fix anything.

I will wait a little while and see if anyone can help out. But if I can’t get this problem fixed then I will have to move onto another blogging site and this I really don’t want to do. While I enjoy writing the blogs, for me half the pleasure comes from being able to read and comment on other people’s blogs and I have found that without being able to do this my own inspiration to write has dwindled to virtually nothing. If I moved to another blogging site I would be moving away from a little network of bloggers here on Blogger that I consider to be my friends and that seems to me to be a very lonely prospect. But I have to admit that right now even the idea of logging on to Blogger is creating a knot of anxiety in my stomach.