When can I post a question?

March 3, 2007 1:10 PM

The New Question page on AskMefi is giving me conflicting information. First it says that I have 7 days 15 hours (etc) to post, then one countdown says I have 15 hours left, then there's another countdown which was constantly changing between the two, but as I type this it's settled itself to 15 hours. (One of the countdowns is from a GreaseMonkey script). Which is it?
posted by divabat to Bugs at 1:10 PM (6 comments total)

turn off your greasemonkey scripts. Then go to the posting page. That would be the correct number (the one from the actual server).
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:15 PM on March 3, 2007

Still conflicting, Matt. I see this:

D'oh!

You've asked a question in the past two weeks. There is a limit of one question per 14 days, which you've used up. Make them count, because you'll only get one every couple weeks.

You may ask another question in: 7 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes, 8 seconds.

15 hours, 3 minutes and 18 seconds
until you can ask another question.
posted by divabat at 1:38 PM on March 3, 2007

If that's what you see, it's because you have a greasemonkey script turned on.

The site doesn't send text like that.
posted by dmd at 1:43 PM on March 3, 2007

You probably have some mefi extension still doing conflicting things. I assure you that I'm not seeing it on the post page. I only see one indication that I have some number less than 2 weeks to post again.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:46 PM on March 3, 2007

"15 hours, 3 minutes and 18 seconds
until you can ask another question."

I bet you have some extension that doesn't know about the two week limit, and is calculating the time left after one week.
posted by niles at 1:51 PM on March 3, 2007

Bah! Didn't realize I had TWO such scripts. Sorry, fixed now.
posted by divabat at 2:08 PM on March 3, 2007