Hello my fellow Bitterlings. Some of you might recognize me from such blogs as my original one called Ben’s Bitter Blog, in which I posted over a thousand reasons why you should be bitter. I was humming along writing posts 5 days a week, when all of a sudden, the bitterest case scenario happened.
I type in my user name as I have for over SIX years, and then my password. The stupid thing pops up and says, “Your Password is not correct.” I laugh it off because I laugh no times ever and all of a sudden, it doesn’t work. I figure I’m just really bad at remembering my password and type it one more time and then another and another, until the rude login guy tells me that if I type in the wrong password one more time, they are going to put me in bitter WordPress jail and not let me type it in again for 15 minutes.
I blow it off and think that it will just fix itself, just like I figure all my problems will be solved, and try it again. Fast forward many bitter fist-pounding days, and here I am. Not on the original blog, not able to get access to it, and all my hard work of 6 years, just sitting there, not being added upon for almost a whole month. So I did what any bitter revenge seeking guy would do and started a new blog. From scratch. It will look much like the old one and taste just as bitter (because it is from the same bitter guy). It will have the same bitter content, but 0 of my followers from the previous one. So I plan on being as obnoxious as I can about getting new followers and hunting down all the old ones.
Just like every sequel ever made this blog will be a hundred times better than the original. They can take the blog from the bitter guy, but they can’t take the bitter guy from the blog.
ARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH
Bitter 2.0 Ben
Is it normal that you have no Bitter “like” button?
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There is no like button?
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Only when I access your post via the Reader… If I go on your Blog #2, there is no “like” or “share” button…
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I’m trying to figure it out. I forgot so many things, because so much was automatic before.
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Ugh, I can only imagine the trouble….
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It has been awful. Like Micheal Scott says, “I will burn WordPress to the ground!”
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Thanks my friend. Starting from scratch is the wurrrst.
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I feel your pain….😣
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It’s pretty much the worst.
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You don’t sound bitter about it at all …
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I’m pretty bitter about it. Locked out of my old blog that I spent years on. ARRRRGGGHHHH!
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mangoes … that is all. they make everything sweet …
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They wouldn’t make me sweet. No matter how hard someone would try.
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I thank Cyranny for letting me know where you disappeared to so suddenly.
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Yeah, I was rolling right along and then the password didn’t work. I was so bitter.
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I’d be bitter to if this happened to me. BTW, where is your “Like” button?
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I mean, I’d be bitter *too*
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I’m not bitter about misspelling. I do it all the tyme.
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I’m still pretty bitter about it. I will probably be making people mad that I talk about it so much. Even my wife is really bitter about it.
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I predict this sequel will be as good or better than the first. Keep on blogging my friend.
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I will keep blogging, no matter how many blogs they take away from me.
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Oh wow…whose bad side did you get on? 😧 You getting locked out of your hilarious, wonderful blog is almost enough to make ME bitter. Glad you’re back, though.
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I couldn’t believe it. They make it so hard to get it back. Don’t ever use a work email, because when you don’t work there anymore, you are pretty stuck.
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Hey, Ben. Sounds like you’ve encountered some extremely bitter suckage. I feel for you.
I notice the “like” button is still not active for this post. The theme you’re using is different from mine, so it might not help, but try this:
WP Admin –> Settings –> Sharing –> Scroll down a bit –> Third or So Entry from bottom should be something like “WordPress.Com likes are” and you can choose between turn on for all posts or turn on per post.
Good luck.
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I went in there and changed it. I think it just didn’t retroactively do it for my first post.
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Oh wow, that sucks! I was going to ask you if you’ve tried contacting WP support, but I reckon you must have already. 6 years… I’m happy I found your new blog. Or actually that you found me and let me know about your new blog :p
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Yeah, I tried support and I tried everything. Unless I could find an old bill (which I can’t seem to find), I up a creek without a paddle. I’m moving on. I even set up a paid blog called Bitter Entertainment Network that I’m going to try and monetize. Tired of not getting paid for all this content.
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This is the bitterest thing that could ever happen: reincarnation as a bitter blogger again. The bitter wheel of birth, death, and rebirth really does go round and round. But thanks for returning to this blogosphere, as it reminds what’s in store for me some day, after my blog dies.
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Yep, don’t ever let your blog get away from you. It fuels the bitterness.
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In case you want to start using your original blog again, this might help:
On the WordPress.com site, there’s a section that says “lost your password?” — if you click on it, then this message appears: “enter your WordPress.com user name or email address. Then wait for recovery details to be sent. Then follow the instructions and be re-united with your account.”
Good luck.
Neil S.
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I tried all that. The problem is that the email that I used to set up the account was an old work email that I no longer have access to. So basically, a bitter situation.
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I’m glad I found your comment on Samantha’s page so I could track you down. I’ve missed your bitterness this month. J.
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Yeah, it has clearly been a bitter month. Not that that is any different from any other month for me. Though it was a different type of bitter.
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Thank you for making me aware of your current bitterness. It’s one of your best bitternesses to date, so inadvertently WP has made you a better bitter blogger. So there’s that. Bothersome as it might be.
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Yeah, for sure. Also, I won’t make that same mistake again, so I’m keeping every email I ever get from now on from them.
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I noticed your absence. Welcome back you bitter bugger
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It’s a good thing SOMEBODY noticed. Even my wife stopped noticing that I was blogging all the time.
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I dig your bitterness
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I dig myself in graves all the time.
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Oh my God, though! What does it all MEAN? Who would hack your blog? I mean seriously? ♥️ Glad you like a post of mine so I could find you again!
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I think they were trying to put a bitter man down. I guess they wanted only non bitter people blogging. Not gonna happen. I’m back and bitterer than ever.
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well HERE you are! Dang it all man, you are supposed to stay in ONE spot so I can read bitter stuff on days when I can not stop smiling! Cyranny let us know you were hanging out here now so we could once again drive you even more bitterly towards the edge. As one who has lost TWO (yes, 2) blogs to the insanity of hacky peeps, let me congratulate you on the swiftness of your bitter return.
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It took me way too long. I was gone for almost a month and people have started to forget me. Which is fine actually. Who needs bitterness in their life besides me?
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how in hades am I supposed to take the SWEET if the bitter disappears? HUMMMMM?
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I know. We need to bitter, which I provide, at a high cost of course, so everyone can enjoy their sweet so much.
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I was wondering what happened to you. Everything seemed so much more… cheery.
Good to have you back.
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I was wondering too. I guess I need to stop making WordPress bitter or they will keep trying to take my blogs out.
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Aha. That’s how you disappear.
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Yeah, if only I could learn magic so I could disappear from work whenever I felt like it.
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good to see you at your new bitter place, ben. now you really deserve to be more bitter than ever
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I know right? All the more reason to be bitter.
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Unbelievable! I’m glad you’re back, but jeez, what a bitter pill to swallow. If anyone has earned the right to be bitter, it’s you.
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I didn’t even need this to be bitter. I am bitter like Hulk. I am always bitter.
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So what’s your password? I won’t tell anyone, but I can help. Promise.
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The password is…bitteristhenewblack. Let me know when it gets fixed! Thanks!
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Here I was blogging my days away and then I realized, “Where did Ben go!?!” So glad I’ve been reunited 😂
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Yep, I was pretty bitter about it. But what can you do but get revenge and start a new blog.
Also, did I just read you are engaged and living in England? What the heck girl? How did this all come about?
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Hahahah I guess we haven’t talked in quite a while! YES! I got engaged in December to a British lad and I’ve been staying with him in England for the past four months. I’ll be heading home in less than two weeks to start working again until we know he’s got a USA visa and can come back!
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So will you guys settle in the US or travel your whole lives? Sounds like quite an adventure!
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We are hoping to settle in the US, Charleston specifically, which is where we met. His visa was denied for the first time so we have our fingers crossed for this second time, which we will know in February. If it’s denied again, we will settle here in England!
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Whoa that sucks. I hate it when my Visa gets denied. Then I have to use my Discover. But seriously, so cool that you live there and I hope you guys make it back to the States. If not, you might have to marry him so he can get his green card! HA!
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Damn! And I was hoping the sequel would be better! Oh well!
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I guess I will just have to keep trying to make it more bitter then.
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did you talk to WordPress…they should be able to get you access.
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They don’t have a phone line. They only have online and they weren’t able to help me unless I had a Purchase ID, which I couldn’t find.
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I truly believed that at some point you got so-o-o-o bitter you burst into flames and ended up in Bitter Heaven. Glad to see you back.
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I did burst into bitter flames. Haven’t you seen all the smoke in Utah and California? That is all me.
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Sorry to hear that and no wonder I did not see you in my reader. I am glad you dropped by! It enabled me to link up
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I changed again to Bitter Entertainment Network and now I am posting to that. Follow me there if you want to live, I mean continue reading my posts.
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I hope I can still get to read you on wp! Right here!
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Yep, you can. Just follow http://www.bitterentertainmentnetwork.com.
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