Many of you have noticed a strange interloper polldaddy link attached to WordPressers who leave comments on your posts.
This is a new Ratings Widget thingy from WordPress.
I do NOT understand a word they’ve written about it, but you can read about it at:
http://support.polldaddy.com/rating-widget/
Thanks for this Chris. I’ve had loads of people telling me that there’s a strange link attached to all my comments. At first I thought my blog had been hacked or infected. Then Sue directed me to your post. In turn I have also directed the people who have said “there’s a strange link attached to your comments”, to your post.
What I can’t understand is that I have not put ticks in the ‘show ratings on’ boxes. I’ve checked my dashboard and those boxes are clear.
I’ll carry on directing people here who ask about the strange link. Some get quite upset when I tell them that their comments also have the strange link. I wonder if there is anyway in getting of it?
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No way of getting rid of it as far as I can tell Hugh – but it’s probably a useful tool for bloggers and WordPress…
I must go into my settings and ferkle 😄😄😄
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Drat! I was hoping we could get rid of it. I guess I’ll have to carry on telling everyone to read your post about it in the meantime. Yes, I agree, a good tool for some, but not when it leads to a page of code and starts freaking people out because they think it’s a virus. Oh well, I wonder what is next in store for us all from WordPress?
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Gremlins by any other name are still little peskys Hugh -The widget thingy seems to give the likes thumbs another way of recording in stars rather than numbers, but I personally like keeping them simple so haven’t ticked the box. 😱😈🐵
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Scary.. I started trying to learn to code a few weeks ago, but at the rate I’m going they’ll probably have moved on to something else before I got to understand the first thing about it. I still have to move all things around my blog and get onto WordPress.org, so that would be test enough. Thanks, Chris!
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Good Luck with that Olga 😀
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I think I will pass on this. A little to complicated for me. I have not seen one yet but thanks to you I will know what it is!
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I find it is a pain in the you know what that I have to check on my 4 blogs to ensure it is NOT ticked off
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😀 😀 😀
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Reblogged this on Linda G. Hill and commented:
I don’t get it. Do you? Like I said on the original post, it’s like having spinach stuck in your teeth – nobody wants to talk about the appearance of it, but it’s staring you right in your comments.
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Thanks Linda 😀
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I’ve only noticed it on a few of the comments I’ve received. I hope it’s not attached to mine… You’d let me know, right Chris? It’s kinda like having spinach in your teeth…
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You’ve got Polldaddy spinach on your comment Linda 😀
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Eeek! So do you! 😉
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YEP – It’s ‘The Spinach in Your Comments Season’ Linda LOLOL 😀
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Falalalalala… Better than having mistletoe up your leg I guess.
…wait… 😉
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ROTFLOL
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