It’s All Maya!

(If you’re looking for a solution to this problem, scroll down to the end of the post and read the Update, you’ll find out how to correct the problem.)

What in the heck is this message that I’ve been getting from Wordpress for the past several days?  It’s not like I have a blog like Perez Hilton’s gossip blog with millions of visitors everyday coming to read all my rambling!  Or one like Christian Lander’s blog on Stuff White People Like where he has hundreds of comments everyday!

I mean gee whiz, all I’m trying to do here is reply to a comment that someone may have left on my blog and what pops up?  “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.”  Not even so much as a “….please slow down.”  As I’ve said, I could see that message popping up if I owned the two blogs that I mentioned and I was sitting at my keyboard with my fingers flying at lightning speed trying to respond to some of those hundreds of comments, but give me a break!  This is definitely not the case!

I was leaving a comment for two people from my last post and it was the first comment I was leaving in over a day and this message appears!  I think it’s some kind of bug, but when I tried to find a solution on the internet for it, there doesn’t seem to be one!  So it seems I can’t even leave a comment on my own blog!  If anyone knows how to solve this problem, please leave me a message!  (That is, if you can!!!)

Maya Muses:  Well it’s late and I’m not going to try to figure this out tonight!  I’ll worry about it tomorrow!  Sorry Deena and Billy; I couldn’t reply to your comments!

Update:  After researching long and hard, I found out what the problem is!  Apparently if you’re getting this message: “You are posting comments too quickly.  Slow down.” for some reason the time edit on the last comment(s) that was posted jumped to sometime in the future before the post was written, and therefore, wordpress will not let you or anyone post anymore comments until that “future” time has become the “present” - make sense?!  You need to go to the last comment(s) that was placed and change the “edit timestamp” to your local time and the problem is solved!!!  Whoopie!!!  (How it jumped, or why it jumped, is beyond me; I was just interested in finding a solution!)

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