How to comment on other peoples articles?

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   Neena Danielsposted 7 weeks ago

   Hello, I'm not sure if I'm in the right section to ask this; but I noticed that I am not able to comment on writers' articles, even when other people have. I'm wondering if its because the author changed the setting, or am I just missing something/ not seeing where to comment? Thank you in advance!

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      theraggededgeposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      Comments aren't available on most of the network sites now. You are probably seeing old ones or messages on the networks that do have them.

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         Neena Danielsposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

         Ah, okay, thank you for the response!

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      Matt Wellsposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      Commenting is enabled on the following sites.
      
      https://axleaddict.com
      https://wanderwisdom.com
      https://letterpile.com
      https://soapboxie.com
      https://delishably.com
      https://pairedlife.com

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         Neena Danielsposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

         Thank you!

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         OldRosesposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

         Are there plans to enable it on Dengarden?  Readers always have lots of questions about gardening, my niche.

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            Matt Wellsposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

            Yes, we are planning on enabling comments on Dengarden and the other Network Sites.

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               OldRosesposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

               That's great news!  Thanks.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 7 weeks ago

   Broken record alert.
   
   In its current iteration commenting is completely useless. Writers are not notified if comments are made, so anybody can attach spam, vile racist, homophobic, sexist and conspiracy theorist crap to our articles and we won't know. It will look as though we approve of such drivel.

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      Neena Danielsposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      Gotcha. I've been off hub pages for a few years and got inspired to write again- hence me just now noticing the difference with the commenting.  I did look around in other forums after posting this, and found others asking the same thing. Thus it does make me sound like a broken record, my apologies!

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   Rupert Taylorposted 7 weeks ago

   No Neena. My "broken record" comment was not directed at you; it was directed at myself, as I've bellyached about the useless nature of the current comment format on these pages several times. You are blameless in raising the topic.

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      Neena Danielsposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      Ahh okay, thank you for the clarification, Rupert!

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   Brenda Arledgeposted 7 weeks ago

   If someone else features your article on the forum, then we can leave comments and discuss on here.

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   eugbugposted 7 weeks ago

   I'm guessing comments have to be physically copied and pasted from the old article versions to the new ones, so that may be why it's taking so long to implement. There are several third party tools that can be used to generate an alert when a website changes, so they could be used as a workaround to send a notification about a new comment. Visualping is one such tool.
   Why can't code be run to generate a notification email when a reader submits a comment?

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      Matt Wellsposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      That's not the reason. We are working on it.

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