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Why are my posts not showing up when i comment on a news story? Only a blank field shows up with no text.

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    mark Albinomark Albino shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    AnonymousAnonymous shared a merged idea: Can't even thumb up/down a comment anymore, let alone post a comment. Will you ever fix your site?  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Stop censoring my comments, I should be able to say medical marijuana.  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: for some reason i cant post  ·   · 
    ToddTodd shared a merged idea: Haven't been able to post comments for over a month.  ·   · 
    SteveSteve shared a merged idea: You are blocking -- not publishing -- my comments. Have the courtesy or courage to explain why!!  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Hey yahoo, your junk is broken. My comments come out as blanks.  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: why are my bubbagumpu@yahoo.com comments showing up as blanks under the stories??  ·   · 
    c chandlerc chandler shared a merged idea: again my comments are not visible to be thumbs up or down and my choices up and down are not being counted  ·   · 
    Dryan BavisDryan Bavis shared a merged idea: my comments are not showing up. no matter how many times i reload or repost, my comments are failing.  ·   · 
    waynewayne shared a merged idea: Show me WHY you have cut me off from POSTING.  ·   · 
    completed  ·  Product SupportAdminProduct Support (Admin, Yahoo!) responded  · 

    Hi Yahoo! News readers,

    Thank you so much for your feedback. Please provide us more detail so that we can investigate to solve your issue. The information we need from you is:

    - Browser version.
    - Any error info after you sending comment?
    - The actual content of comment you were trying to post is?
    - Article URL.

    Yahoo! Product Support

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      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Give me a break! how many users have to complain about the "SAME" issue before you take responsible and fix. We need the following information to help you...rubbish yahoo shame on you!

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I am unable to see the comment section at all. That area of screen is completely blank.

      • DanDan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Yahoo does indeed censor - I have lost the ability to even see comments using this name.
        It's not a browser issue.
        If I log in with another or my yahoo email names I can see comments section.

        Post some things they don't like or goes against there sick agendas, get lots of thumbs up and see if you lose comments like I did lol

        Some post show that there so called news articles are nothing but their own opinions or propaganda and not facts or even so called fact poles. Or should I say it?? Yes Lies

      • LarryLarry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        For me, it was only the one day. Everything was back later that day, except that sometimes the comments section does not show at all. Refreshing the page makes it show up.

        It seems to be caused by the ads. They take too long to load, and the browser times out.

      • LarryLarry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Some of my troubles started after I cleared my cookies at their requests. Things stopped working, and it started requiring separate logins for these comments, posting, and email. And TV guide forgot where I live and the stations I watch. It took me 3 hours to reprogram everything.

        Never ask people to clear cookies.

      • Wilbur DillmanWilbur Dillman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        mark. I have been eaten up by product support denying the obvious, and blaming me for not doing something with cookies. If they are so self serving as to think I will do the work required to supply my Browser version, error info, content, and URL, yahoo needs to pay me for doing their job

      • MikeMike commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I, too, have been having trouble posting comments and with thumbs up/down. The comments & thumbs up/down seem to work fine for a short period of time and then quit working (comments start being *blank* and the thumbs are no longer registered). I have found that closing and reopening my browser (Firefox) will restore things for a short period of time, then they quit working again until I close and reopen my browser again.

      • its justits just commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I can not thumbs up or down either as well as getting the blank box when trying to comment.

        -Chrome, updated.
        -no error
        -the content was correct in its spelling, punctuation, and has no inappropriate content, not even in part of a word such as 'buttresses'. It follows the length requirements as its only about 300 characters or less and has two words that were all caps out of about 140 words.
        -http://news.yahoo.com/marco-rubio-denies-being-bigot-chauvinist-184408299--abc-news-politics.html

      • LarryLarry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        More: It's only certain pages that do this. I just posted successfully on another page.

      • LarryLarry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I use Firefox 19.0.2 on Windows XP Service Pack 3.

        No error message appeared.

        My post was:

        "That's just what the Democrats say. They covet every dollar business makes, forgetting that businesses are the source of jobs."

        URL:

        http://news.yahoo.com/ap-analysis-rival-budgets-seeking-political-goals-181927784--politics.html?bcmt=1363208887056-8cdf67a4-f36c-4965-b3cc-8c9515f03d23&bcmt_s=e#mediacommentsugc_container

      • LarryLarry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        It's happening to me too. The post ends up blank, and then is not added to the posts.

      • ToddTodd commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Haven't been able to post comments for over a month.

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