Unclosed tags a problem in "My Comments"

May 18, 2007 5:51 PM

When I view my "My Comments" page, everything after this comment is small. There seems to be no closing tag. The original post page is fine. Is there some auto-closing mechanism that needs to be implemented in the new My Comments page?
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen to bugs at 5:51 PM (6 comments total)

I thought that had been implemented, actually; and I don't know if anything has changed in the My Comments page recently, though pb might be up to something under the hood.
posted by cortex at 6:11 PM on May 18, 2007

No, this still breaks on the my comments page, it does not break on any of the ther pages with comments. I don't know wtf filgeek was thinking with the 800 word small treatise, but I'll fix it so it doesn't break everything.
posted by jessamyn at 7:11 PM on May 18, 2007

As long as we have a metatalk thread about it, I am somewhat irritated that a comment that I made that specifically addressed the question asked but also commented on something in another comment got deleted because it was believed to be off topic. The relative merits of free weights vs machines might not be directly on topic but unless the OP flagged the comments as noise/derail I suspect they could have been interesting and educational to those reading the thread and others searching for posts on the topic in the future. Anyway it seems like pointlessly overzealous moderation considering that the post was far off the first page and I rather doubt there was a major flamewar brewing.
posted by ch1x0r at 11:00 PM on May 18, 2007

ch1xor, the question was about learning more about machines, and you were telling the asker (and all comers) that they just shouldn't use machines. There's a grey area in AskMe for where a sort of contraindicative comment makes sense, but once you're basically arguing at complete odds with the premise of the question you've strayed into the danger zone for comment deletion.
posted by cortex at 8:52 AM on May 19, 2007

The thread had very few comments and fully half of them were about freeweights including the super huge small type derail. The OP had said they weren't interested in free weights and gave reasons. Again, comments that were on-topic and trying to be helpful to the OP "I understand you said no weights but your reasons for not wanting them might not be as accurate as you think" would have stayed.

People tend to read a lot of AskMe in the My Comments page, so if people are still commenting -- and iirc, the last four comments were all about free weights and not really talking to the OP at all -- jsut being off the front page isn't any indicator of whether something is likely to head south or not.
posted by jessamyn at 9:03 AM on May 19, 2007

ch1xor, the question was about learning more about machines, and you were telling the asker (and all comers) that they just shouldn't use machines. There's a grey area in AskMe for where a sort of contraindicative comment makes sense, but once you're basically arguing at complete odds with the premise of the question you've strayed into the danger zone for comment deletion.

No, I wasn't. I don't even believe that people shouldn't use machines. I commented on something that I believed was a misstatement of fact by another commenter, and then I answered the OPs question about where s/he might go for information on how to use the machines and how to plan a workout routine.
My second comment was certainly fair game for deletion, but my first comment was no more off topic than most of the comments before it. In fact, it actually did attempt to answer the question asked, unlike at least two of the comments left standing that explicitly say nothing but use freeweights.
Fine, it's deleted, whatever. But I think a lot of good information got removed, and some of the things left behind are misleading and incorrect. However, I cannot correct them because that would be off-topic, and frankly I find the idea of discussing the issue in metatalk absurd. The point of the discussion was to give the OP a clue as to which advice to take in the first place.
posted by ch1x0r at 11:39 AM on May 19, 2007