I started this blog in 2012. Readership began building and reached amazing heights. But in 2016, something strange began to happen. Readers began disappearing. Many contacted me offline to ask if I had blocked them. Of course, I had not.
I contacted WordPress, where I always get a very fast response from people they call “Happiness Engineers.” They told me that Facebook had changed its algorithm, which caused a drop in my readership. But readers continued to reach out to me to say that they had been dropped without their permission and asking how to resume receiving the blog. I always sent their requests to the Happiness Engineers, who told them that they had pressed a button to block receipt of the blog and advised them how to unblock it. This happened to members of my family and close friends, some of whom never figured out how to resume getting the blog.
Recently, Mercedes Schneider was dropped, like so many other readers before her.
She figured out exactly how to restore her receipt of the blog.
In the future, when a reader writes to ask why they no longer receive my blog and how they can resume it, I will send them Mercedes’ careful explanation.
Meanwhile, I wish someone at WordPress would figure out what’s wrong with their software and why they unsubscribe people who don’t wish to be unsubscribed.
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I just sent this to Gordon Wilder. I know he didn’t want to be dropped. Hope this works.
Gordon Wilder was in touch with me and I connected him to the Happiness Engineers. Frankly, I never understood their instructions and probably he did not either. I hope Mercedes’ careful description helps him get reconnected.
Diane I’d like to see the method of restoration anyway?
The other point is: Mercedes Schneider? Now, . . . having a background in philosophy makes we quite keen on the MAJOR difference between (1) raising red flags and (2) actually knowing something, that is, between (1) having reasonably-raised questions and (2) having enough relevant evidence to both pronounce clarity of meaning and claim knowledge, true or false. (<<–BTW, that’s the difference between reasonable people and conspiracy theorists.)
That being said: Mercedes Schneider? Red Flag. CBK
Mercedes Schneider explains how to restore your blog access. You should save her instructions in the event you are ever severed from receipt of the blog without your request.
Facebook has a problem with its algorithm for sure. I do not know if Campbell Brown’s finger is on the scale or something else. I use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends that are all over the country. I also try to drive people to this blog. Because I often read and comment on education posts, I have also received posts from Pearson, the Koch Brothers and other corporate deformers. I have been an outspoken critic of the posts along with other people. I have noticed that I continue to receive these posts, but I cannot respond to them. I do not know if this is the result of the algorithm or not.
I think what’s happening is this: some Russian or other Troll is hacking into the e-mail accounts of people that are dropped and blocking them from specific blogs they follow.
Part of the war-like propaganda campaign to destroy public education.
“Happiness Engineers”????
Dear God, sounds like 1984, and ThoughtCrime. (But come to think of it, that concept has already been embraced by the campus Left.)
Singapore has, or had when I was there, “Happiness Troopers”. Maybe that’s where WordPress got the idea.
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