Wonky deleted threads showing up in place of music players.

July 17, 2008 7:01 PM

MeFi Music: MusicTalk threads showing up on main page as deleted threads, tossing out the flash player for the preceding song. Latest example: July 11, the track Settle Down's player is gone and replaced by "Deleted thread:2308", which was actually posted on MeFiMuTa later.

Is this just a bug in the (fantastic) deleted thread Grease Monkey script?

posted by self to bugs at 7:01 PM (11 comments total)

I'm sorry, it's not replacing the player, but inserting itself between the Music post's title and before-the-fold content.
posted by self at 7:02 PM on July 17, 2008

Yes, it is the GreaseMonkey script.

All the script does to detect deleted posts is check for gaps in post IDs. The author will have to add a specific check for this, as they probably had to before on AskMe due to anon question numbers being pre-allocated.
posted by blasdelf at 7:32 PM on July 17, 2008

Can you disable Greasemonkey by clicking on the monkey head at the lower right of the status bar?
posted by Pronoiac at 8:17 PM on July 17, 2008

Update your greasemonkey scripts, I believe Plutor posted an update in response to this bug a couple weeks back.
posted by mathowie at 8:29 PM on July 17, 2008

Next month's MeFiMu Challenge: Write a song that someone might mistake for a "wonky deleted thread".
posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:34 PM on July 17, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]

Here's the update announcement, with a link to the updated script.
posted by pb at 8:37 PM on July 17, 2008

^ pb: "Here's the update announcement, with a link to the updated script."

Ah thank you very much!
posted by self at 1:29 AM on July 18, 2008

Here's the update announcement, with a link to the updated script.

It was pretty much universally agreed that I won that thread.
posted by Jofus at 4:06 AM on July 18, 2008

I know that I agreed with that.
posted by Plutor at 5:29 AM on July 18, 2008

Stone cold motherfuckers.
posted by cortex at 10:30 AM on July 21, 2008

Fucking up my Christmas.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:42 PM on July 21, 2008