How To Comment

Can I make a confession?

I’m always surprised by the amount of bright people who admit to being baffled.

By what seems to me to be the simple task of leaving a comment, here on Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar.

To me, it always seems easy to do.

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It’s relatively simple.

• Follow the links from either Facebook, X, Bluesky or Instagram, to get to Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar.   
• Click on the title of the post that’s caught your eye*.
• Scroll to the bottom of the post: you’ll find a line of text that says either ‘0 Comments’ or ‘Post a Comment’.   Click on that.
• That takes you to the next screen: the Comment publishing screen.   Put your comment in the box, provided.
• When asked, type in the text in the picture into the relevant box. (The one that says ‘Type The Text’.)
• Pick the identity you want your comment published under.
• Finally, press the orange ‘Publish Your Comment’ button.

I’ve had the occasional anonymous comment that I’ve found objectionable: so I’d prefer you to leave your name.   The easiest way to do that is click the buttons that let you use you G+ ID.   You can also the Name/URL button to leave your Twitter/Facebook/website ID.   If you DO want to use the Anonymous option, I’d appreciate you leaving your name at the end of your comment.

That way … ?   That way, I can also filter out spam comments: who tend to use the Anonymous option, and usually advertise Viagra.   (When I started this blog, I didn’t mind anonymous comments.   But, after having those early objectionable, or actionable — or just plain badly spelt — comments?   I felt that people leaving a name, even even just signing it at the bottom of the post, was preferable to having nothing.)

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As a final point, I know I’ve had one or two people complain that they can’t get a comment to stick.

In that case, I have a suggestion.

Write your comment in WordPad, TextEdit, gEdit or Word — whatever your preferred lightweight word processing app is — and then copy and paste it into the Comment Box I mentioned above.

Then carry on.

That USUALLY avoids your comments getting eaten by Google!

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As final thoughts … ?

I’ve made movies explaining how to comment … 

You can also copy and paste on a tablet:

• For Android tablets, you can read this …
• This is how you do it on iOS.

On more moderna Android phones: you can scroll down until you reach this … 

I hope this How To helps.

*        Generally, the titles of the Daily Teasers lead, not to that Teaser, but to that day’s YouTube video.   The video has a link to the relevant Teaser:  in the information box under the video.   That will take you to the relevant Teaser post.   Thank you, once again, for listening.