Many readers have contacted me offline to ask why they no longer receive the blog. If you no longer receive the blog, you probably won’t see this message from me, but I am letting you know that an untold number of readers have been blocked.
This is very puzzling because members of my own family have been inexplicably dropped by WordPress.
WordPress always says “they are blocking us,” yet when I ask those I know, they are puzzled because they have done nothing to block the blog.
I now have many email exchanges with WordPress. The only positive thing I can say is the people who respond no longer call themselves “Happiness Engineers.”
This is how to contact Support at WordPress.
“A few of the email addresses listed have blocked us from sending any subscription emails. I have followed up with them to point out where they can change their settings.
Please have them check their inbox, as well as spam folders. If they still have trouble, please have them contact us at help@wordpress.com, and refer to ticket #688249, so that we can work with them directly to troubleshoot what might be happening.”
Diane
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Thanks for troubleshooting. I was blocked from commenting on the Nevada effort to interfere with science instruction. This is really a multi-state effort.
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WordPress is very frustrating. My own partner got dropped and despite repeated efforts, is still not getting the blog.
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Diane – for a long time, Apple Mail unilaterally decided to start putting your blog emails into my spam folder along with the male member extension offers and phishing scams. I’d never marked them as spam, and couldn’t figure out how to unmark them as spam to get them back into my inbox. Then, magically, about two weeks ago, they started showing up back in my inbox instead of the spam folder. Don’t know if this helps, but I get your emails on a Gmail account.
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It’s the WordPress Conspiracy.
Donald Trump working in conjunction with Vladimir Putin to thwart Diane Ravitch, who represents a clear threat to their hedge-money.
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If you contact WordPress, of course, it will just put you on their radar.
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“Happiness Engineers?”
Please just kill me now…
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Censorship? Not saying this is for real, but NOTHING surprises me any more.
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If wordpress has been hacked then users ID’s can be spoofed and false unsubscribe requests sent. They can also be dropped from the service with all their info being deleted. Such things can be done in ways that do not raise any red flags from WordPress’s IT people since only subscribers to Diane’s feed would be affected since they are obviously the targets. Censorship.
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Anon,
WordPress support told me that people who stopped receiving the blog had “blocked” it. When I asked my brother, my partner, and several friends if they had blocked WordPress, they said absolutely not. They wouldn’t even know how to do that. I followed the WordPress instructions to unblock my partner, and the instructions didn’t work. Very frustrating.
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The stakes are high. I would not be surprised if someone or some group of hackers are messing with Diane’s blog via WordPress.
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I had to change my email address and my “handle.” When I only changed my email address, wordpress blocked me again.
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For those who receive the blog via email, what is the sending email address? Is it something@dianeravitch.net or does it come from another domain?
If it comes from another domain that others are using, and other users of your email provider are marking it as spam, that could impact your receipt of this blog.
Legitimate emails sometimes gets marked as spam in my email program.
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I don’t know. It may be greatschoolwars.net.
The name of my first book.
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