Is it about dogs against cats? About a therapist inviting a guest observer? A slam on yoga practitioners?
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This would work fine with humans. Adding animals seems to just muddy the waters. And “Dr. Yogi” muddies them further.
I agree with Powers @1 that “Dr. Yogi” was a poor choice for the name (it made me think that the observer should be a bear wearing a hat, or sitting in front of a cave at the top of a mountain). The name on the door is “Dr. Woof”, perhaps “Dr. Bark” would have been a better selection.
A few folks in comments were confused and thought Dr. Yogi was the cat.
I have a friend who has consistently bad luck. On several occasions he has gone to the emergency room, had the imaging done, and the doctor takes one look at the image, goes out into the hall, comes back with three other doctors, points to the image and says “Look at that! Have you ever seen anything like THAT before?”
Trust me, this is not something you want to have happen to you. The only thing worse is having a disease named after you. Well, maybe not so bad if you’re the doctor, like Dr. Alzheimer. But it really sucks if you’re the patient, like Lou Gehrig.
My family has a consistent thing in any medical environment – the doctor’s first comment is “Hmm, that’s odd…”. My dad had heart disease despite perfectly clear aortas. My sister has an unusual form of a rare disease (at least she’s not entirely alone, though the unusual form is mostly “well, it’s not any of the kinds we know so…”. My other sister has either RA (without any of the RA markers) or the same rare disease, but she hasn’t been able to get a diagnosis – none of her doctors have been familiar with EDS. And I have a milder form of the same thing (probably), also not diagnosed. My mom is allergic (sensitive) to opiates, and hasn’t been able to convince her doctors not to give her any in surgery, so she’s taken much longer to recover from any surgery than (we think) she should have. Hmm, that’s odd…
@jjmcgaffey: If your mom lives in the USA, and she says, “I do not consent to the use of opiate medications,” it is actually a crime for the doctors to do it anyway except in very specific circumstances. She might give, say, you, medical proxy, so if the lack of meds were somehow life-threatening you could then consent on her behalf.
Note to the moderators/administrators: the system for logging in to comment now erases the comment you just typed when you try to log into WordPress (if you start typing while logged out). At least, that just happened to me, forcing a retype.
@ Carl Fink – WordPress has picked up a weird bug. On the two systems I have with WordPress logged in, the comment entry field is broken, and doesn’t allow me to type anything. This just started in the last two or three days.
P.S. … but logging out and logging in again on this phone just worked (and resulted in a different appearance with a new options selector). I will have to try that on my iPad.
Carl, sorry to hear that.
Your first try (or something like it) did get picked up by the system. It was in Pending (“moderation”) and was marked Anonymous. It briefly resurfaced when I approved it a moment ago, before seeing your later note and realizing it duplicated the content.
Thanks, @Mitch4.
I wish that, when something was held for approval, the system said that happened.
@ Carl Fink – In the past wordpress has indeed put a caption under moderated comments, but only the person who made the comment can see it, and then only if the system is logged into wordpress. If the comment simply disappears, then it may have gone into the Spam or Trash folders.
P.S. @ mitch – There has been a flurry of anonymous comments in recent weeks. Is there a reason that they are getting through now? They used to be extremely rare.
Yes, I also recall that the commenter would see a notice when a submitted comment was held in the Pending folder (that is, moderated). Perhaps, as Kilby speculates, that could depend on being signed in, or relatedly, still being on the same refresh of the page.
In this particular case, Carl’s submitted comment was found in Pending, not Spam or Trash. It was not listed with his name but as “Anonymous” which is what WP does when the Name field of the commenting form is blank. Or perhaps when it is filled but WP doesn’t accept it until the identity is verified by signing in.
Please note that the requirements for commenting are at or near the minimum. It may look at first glance that “loosen the requirements” is possibly useful advice for avoiding this sort of occurrence – but in fact they are minimal, and in some ways the contrary advice of “tighten the requirements” might do more for preventing this sort of thing, as it would expect a commenter to be signed in no matter what.
Because the requirements stand rather low ; in the hope of saving people from losing comments so often.
However, I do now belatedly see that the submission form has changed. This may or may not call for a change of our settings.
On those systems where wordpress’s new comment entry form works, it is a massive improvement, but I think we should discuss this in the Site Comments thread.
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This would work fine with humans. Adding animals seems to just muddy the waters. And “Dr. Yogi” muddies them further.
I agree with Powers @1 that “Dr. Yogi” was a poor choice for the name (it made me think that the observer should be a bear wearing a hat, or sitting in front of a cave at the top of a mountain). The name on the door is “Dr. Woof”, perhaps “Dr. Bark” would have been a better selection.
A few folks in comments were confused and thought Dr. Yogi was the cat.
I have a friend who has consistently bad luck. On several occasions he has gone to the emergency room, had the imaging done, and the doctor takes one look at the image, goes out into the hall, comes back with three other doctors, points to the image and says “Look at that! Have you ever seen anything like THAT before?”
Trust me, this is not something you want to have happen to you. The only thing worse is having a disease named after you. Well, maybe not so bad if you’re the doctor, like Dr. Alzheimer. But it really sucks if you’re the patient, like Lou Gehrig.
My family has a consistent thing in any medical environment – the doctor’s first comment is “Hmm, that’s odd…”. My dad had heart disease despite perfectly clear aortas. My sister has an unusual form of a rare disease (at least she’s not entirely alone, though the unusual form is mostly “well, it’s not any of the kinds we know so…”. My other sister has either RA (without any of the RA markers) or the same rare disease, but she hasn’t been able to get a diagnosis – none of her doctors have been familiar with EDS. And I have a milder form of the same thing (probably), also not diagnosed. My mom is allergic (sensitive) to opiates, and hasn’t been able to convince her doctors not to give her any in surgery, so she’s taken much longer to recover from any surgery than (we think) she should have. Hmm, that’s odd…
@jjmcgaffey: If your mom lives in the USA, and she says, “I do not consent to the use of opiate medications,” it is actually a crime for the doctors to do it anyway except in very specific circumstances. She might give, say, you, medical proxy, so if the lack of meds were somehow life-threatening you could then consent on her behalf.
Note to the moderators/administrators: the system for logging in to comment now erases the comment you just typed when you try to log into WordPress (if you start typing while logged out). At least, that just happened to me, forcing a retype.
@ Carl Fink – WordPress has picked up a weird bug. On the two systems I have with WordPress logged in, the comment entry field is broken, and doesn’t allow me to type anything. This just started in the last two or three days.
P.S. … but logging out and logging in again on this phone just worked (and resulted in a different appearance with a new options selector). I will have to try that on my iPad.
Carl, sorry to hear that.
Your first try (or something like it) did get picked up by the system. It was in Pending (“moderation”) and was marked Anonymous. It briefly resurfaced when I approved it a moment ago, before seeing your later note and realizing it duplicated the content.
Thanks, @Mitch4.
I wish that, when something was held for approval, the system said that happened.
@ Carl Fink – In the past wordpress has indeed put a caption under moderated comments, but only the person who made the comment can see it, and then only if the system is logged into wordpress. If the comment simply disappears, then it may have gone into the Spam or Trash folders.
P.S. @ mitch – There has been a flurry of anonymous comments in recent weeks. Is there a reason that they are getting through now? They used to be extremely rare.
Yes, I also recall that the commenter would see a notice when a submitted comment was held in the Pending folder (that is, moderated). Perhaps, as Kilby speculates, that could depend on being signed in, or relatedly, still being on the same refresh of the page.
In this particular case, Carl’s submitted comment was found in Pending, not Spam or Trash. It was not listed with his name but as “Anonymous” which is what WP does when the Name field of the commenting form is blank. Or perhaps when it is filled but WP doesn’t accept it until the identity is verified by signing in.
Please note that the requirements for commenting are at or near the minimum. It may look at first glance that “loosen the requirements” is possibly useful advice for avoiding this sort of occurrence – but in fact they are minimal, and in some ways the contrary advice of “tighten the requirements” might do more for preventing this sort of thing, as it would expect a commenter to be signed in no matter what.
Because the requirements stand rather low ; in the hope of saving people from losing comments so often.
However, I do now belatedly see that the submission form has changed. This may or may not call for a change of our settings.
On those systems where wordpress’s new comment entry form works, it is a massive improvement, but I think we should discuss this in the Site Comments thread.