If anyone is having problems with commenting to BlogEngine blogs, no worries; you're not alone. I talked to SF, and he said there are a number of people having the same problem. He's looking into it.
See the thing with BlogEngine and some people suddenly having problems commenting to it makes no sense in terms of problems with ScrapeBox.
Why? Because the normal BlogEngine commenter has not changed one bit, in fact the code is stamped November 6, 11:36AM. But now there is an additional 2 methods to make comments to the platform, and that's "Accurate Mode" and also "Manual Mode" but the original method can also be used the same as it has for months.
So worst case scenario ScrapeBox is the same as it's always been, and best case scenario is the two extra methods added allows more ways to comment resulting in an improvement.
Enhancing Accurate Mode and trying to troubleshoot is taking a lot of time for 2 reasons (sorry Kendra i'm using you as a classic example even though it's irrelevant to BE
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Trouble I am having with Scrapebox:
1) I successfully scrape a bunch of URLs for Wordpress.
2) I create custom highly spun comments.
3) Using private proxies from PacketFlip, I run the Comment Posting - making sure I choose the Wordpress option.
4) Commenting fails on nearly all posts, I get a success rate of around 1 in 150.
5) If I use alternative commenting software I get a very high success rate with posting to the same URLs (whilst using the same highly spun comments, backlinks, names, e-mail address and proxies).
It was user error!!
I checked the e-mails file and all the e-mails had @@ instead of a single @.
Thanks for all the replies trying to help stupid old me out.
Situations like this happen several time a day, i'll get 30 minutes or sometimes even 4 hours in to troubleshooting a BlogEngine problem someone has sent to me by email only to realize it's simple a button they didn't click or wrong data in the files.
Also due to the BlogEngine update there's now comment moderation, Askimet, different methods of commenting depending on version etc.
So please understand this does take time, and this BlogEngine thing is not easy considering the things i mentioned above and in fact commenting to the platform is almost EOL.
Now what's happening with the next version? Here is a few things:
BlogEngine
ScrapeBox can now recognize when a post is in the moderation queue and shows in that case "Posted, moderated"
Added alternate method to fill the comment form in case something is blocking filling the comment form by parsing the source and setting the value of the element.
Fast Poster (auto detection)
Wordpress
Movable Type
B2Evolution
Slow Poster in accurate mode (auto detection)
Wordpress
Movable Type
Blogengine
B2Evolution
Drupal
ExpessionEngine
Marker in Comments
%NAME% will be replaced with the users name
%EMAIL% will be replaced with the users email, hyperlinked (except BE, just the email)
%WEBSITE% will be replaced with the users website, hyperlinked (except BE, just the url)
%BLOGURL% will be replaced with the blog's url, , hyperlinked (except BE, just the url)
%BLOGTITLE% will be replaced with the blogs title
There is also new proxy sources, a new "Ping Mode" that will work with all sites, ability to add your own custom useragents, enhanced captcha detection and a lot more things.
