Our comment reply feature is acting stupid again. We're aware of the glitch and have contacted our various extended warranty providers to see about getting it fixed. Thanks for your patience.
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@squinko: Refreshing the page only works if the refreshing causes the profile and logout/login links to come up on the top right. I think that's the case for most people.
@nakedscience: The last time this happened, it didn't work at all. Someone suggested visiting a Gawker site and then coming back, but that didn't work last time, or this time.
@nforcer: Yeah, that's broke a few times @ Giz for me too. They fixed it once, then it happened again and I took it personally, so I stopped going there altogether anymore.
@squinko: Maybe if you smash the system with a hammer and put the video on Youtube you'll get a new one for free!
@bluewyvern: Stop letting Tax Cat sleep on your comment system. I don't care if it's warm; it's absolutely full of cat hair. The fan is totally clogged! Have you people never heard of a vacuum?
I think the other shoe dropped for me. I'm at home now on a mac running Firefox 3.0.8 and I can't even get the profile and login/logout links to appear. I've refreshed a page about 10 times and nothing...do you guys get paid on visits? I've probably paid for 1/15th of a lab coat already if you get revenue for each refresh.
I yearn for the day when Consumerist writes a story about something that went wrong for them. Like "Our commenting system was broken, we contacted our web hosts, they gave us bad service." Then they'll shut down your site from bad publicity. Or someone's donation gets screwed over and they complain to you and you have to post it. That'd be great.
@dorianh49: I had a problem with replying for a couple of days the last time this happened and it was the CR ads that were the problem.
@WolfBaconFlavorMANGURT_GitEmSteveDave: or press 2 to pe placed on hold for 45 minutes then disconnected, so you can submit a story to the consumersit and have your complaint dealt with in a speedy manner.
thanks and have a nice day!
@Rectilinear Propagation: iirc, the CR ads were to blame the first time as well - i adblock everything, so that might be whu it's working for me (and yes consumerist, i'll donate to you, i need a new laptop and a new job first!)














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