Back Door of Commenting

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   Miebakagh57posted 2 years ago

   We do not have the comment button at the moment.                                             But articles when publish within minutes can be read and comment upon.                           Fortunately, not every reader, fellower, or writter, is expecting a colleague to publish a story or two direct.           That said, we only expect to be notify on our feed page. Unfortunately, it so happen that the article is moved to a niche site within 60 minutes or less. So thought one can comment via, the back door, it so happen that at times it remain closed.                                           Yesterday and today, I read two seperate articles that had been moved up to discover site. I post an average of 3 same comments each after rejection. None moved after I click on the comment button to open and written my draft. Has anyone beat this? Is the back door comment button now always remain closed after a story has been move up? Let's discuss.

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      bravewarriorposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      No, they're not closed. If you read the articles through your feed, you have the opportunity to comment. I find it easier to read thru my feed, rather than via the emailed notifications I receive, because sometimes it takes a day or two for them to show up in my feed. By that time, I forgot what I wanted to say.
      
      Keep your feed open. Read and comment from there.

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         Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         I don't read articles via, email. I always read them on my feed setting.                                      When a new article is still on hubpages on my feed, comments can be made anytime after reading the stuff first time. But should it moves to discover while still on one's feed, can first time comment be made?

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   AliciaCposted 2 years ago

   I've found that a comment can be made on any article no matter what site it's on (or has been moved to) as long as the article can be found in our feed.

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      bravewarriorposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Exactly.

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      Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Ironically, one of the articles I had in mind, and which I read today was still on my feed, farther to the bottom of my feed page before it disappear into oblivion.                                              Seriously, no comment has been posted yet. It's an history piece and a lmg read. I click on the comment button and it open up. I draft my words and hit submit...done! This is the challenge that baffled me four times in the morning. Still wondering.

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   Brenda Arledgeposted 2 years ago

   If the author goes to his statistics page & selects author view and types a comment in the comment section of his own article....it places it back onto the feed.
   Then we can comment.
   
   So often though, the author doesn't do this.

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      Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I'm copying that.

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      AliciaCposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      That sounds like a helpful plan if a writer's goal is to get more comments on their article. I don't think that comments by the author that aren't a reply to someone else's look very good, though. I suspect (but don't know) that it would be better for someone interested in search engine traffic to edit the article itself rather than add extra comments that they create.

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         bravewarriorposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         I agree with you, Linda. An author commenting on his own article without that comment being made in response to a reader's comment, comes off as spammy and self-promotional.

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