I have a force multiplier? February 28, 2007 12:06 PM Subscribe
[this is wierd]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:11 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:11 PM on February 28, 2007
What I mean is that, the other day, I posted an askme and it posted twice. Inexplicably (and against what should be the mefi rules). Matthowie thought it was strange. Now, making things a favorite has done the same.
posted by rbs at 12:15 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by rbs at 12:15 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
weird. Are you on a strange corporate network with a cache server or something?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:18 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:18 PM on February 28, 2007
Can you see that I favorited his last comment? For me, it currently shows + 1 favorite, but clicking it says no one has favorited it. I've refreshed several times. This was after a favorite, remove favorite, re-favorite.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:21 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:21 PM on February 28, 2007
Okay - now it's showing up. I wonder if there's enough of a delay to allow doubling up?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:21 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:21 PM on February 28, 2007
I'm pretty sure I do a lookup to make sure you can't favorite something twice. You should see a "you already added this as a favorite" message when you try to do that.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:26 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:26 PM on February 28, 2007
toil and trouble!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:27 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:27 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
You should see a "you already added this as a favorite" message when you try to do that.
I do. I've tried all the combinations I could think of, and can't duplicate. Must be something specific to rbs' setup.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:29 PM on February 28, 2007
I do. I've tried all the combinations I could think of, and can't duplicate. Must be something specific to rbs' setup.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:29 PM on February 28, 2007
It's weird. I only clicked to favorite it once, but it showed up twice.
I am at a middle school that has some websense proxy or something. But mefi shouldn't let that break it, right?
posted by rbs at 12:34 PM on February 28, 2007
I am at a middle school that has some websense proxy or something. But mefi shouldn't let that break it, right?
posted by rbs at 12:34 PM on February 28, 2007
Weird.
Perhaps it is some evil karmic commentary on his tendency to spell "mathowie" with two t's.
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:34 PM on February 28, 2007
Perhaps it is some evil karmic commentary on his tendency to spell "mathowie" with two t's.
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:34 PM on February 28, 2007
You're like Gully Foyle in The Stars My Destination. One of those rbs's is burning.
posted by breezeway at 12:52 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by breezeway at 12:52 PM on February 28, 2007
breezeway's comment needs ascii art to follow it, but not from I.
posted by edgeways at 12:58 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by edgeways at 12:58 PM on February 28, 2007
Huh. I just noticed that this old post of mine was double favorited by jshort. Weird.
posted by maryh at 1:09 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by maryh at 1:09 PM on February 28, 2007
God did it.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:11 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:11 PM on February 28, 2007
It's not weird. It's nothing sinister. It's a dumb bug and I'm sure Matt will figure it out - provided it's on his end there's an issue. Maybe you need to fix the settings on your mouse or something.
posted by frecklefaerie at 1:22 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by frecklefaerie at 1:22 PM on February 28, 2007
"I want to talk to rbs."
**slaps monitor with back of hand**
"LET ME TALK TO RBS!"
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 1:33 PM on February 28, 2007
**slaps monitor with back of hand**
"LET ME TALK TO RBS!"
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 1:33 PM on February 28, 2007
Go into your browser settings, click Advanced, scroll down a bit, and uncheck the "Double Post" option.
posted by jefbla at 2:18 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by jefbla at 2:18 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
Dimensional gateway? Are we seeing manifestations of a mirror-rbs?
*returns to reading Rudy Rucker*
posted by brundlefly at 2:26 PM on February 28, 2007
*returns to reading Rudy Rucker*
posted by brundlefly at 2:26 PM on February 28, 2007
I wonder if this is similar to my problem wherein every once in a while, a comment I make gets posted twice... or thrice! To the amusement of many.
posted by Effigy2000 at 2:26 PM on February 28, 2007
posted by Effigy2000 at 2:26 PM on February 28, 2007
I'm pretty sure I do a lookup to make sure you can't favorite something twice.
Do you lock the database before doing the check until after doing the update? Because otherwise, if two instances of the script are run at the same time, they can both do the check, find nothing wrong, and then both do the save, resulting in two favourites being added.
posted by cillit bang at 3:03 PM on February 28, 2007
Do you lock the database before doing the check until after doing the update? Because otherwise, if two instances of the script are run at the same time, they can both do the check, find nothing wrong, and then both do the save, resulting in two favourites being added.
posted by cillit bang at 3:03 PM on February 28, 2007
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posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:10 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]