Boy, I bet this is irritating! Perhaps the best argument for using Lockergnome.net powered by Blogware. This poor soul has been all but beaten by the comments area of their Typepad Weblog.

Apparently, this person has had issues with this for awhile, yet Typepad has been no help at all. As someone that use Blogware, I can tell you that not only have I never had an issue with my comments feature. Not only that, but any support issues I did have were dealt with in record time.

Talk about annoying, but now it seems my TypePad comment woes have graduated to “irritating.” I wrote earlier about overzealous comment filters but now it’s gotten worse, much worse. Over the last week I’ve come to realize that I cannot leave any comments on any TypePad hosted blog using this domain name (makeyoughmm.com) in either the URL or email field. I’ve talked to a few TypePad blog owners about this and those who have responded have said that they aren’t blocking my comments so I decided to go to TypePad and see what kind of help I could get from them, and to try out TypePad for the first time.

The first thing I discovered is that you can’t submit a support ticket unless you are a paying customer so I signed up for my own TypePad blog and put in my credit card info. After creating a test blog at tdavid.typepad.com, lo and behold (see screenshot above) I could not even add comments to my own paid blog!