Comments on: favorites in the machine

favorites in the machine

allkindsoftime — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:23:26 -0800

Favorites bug-report?

When someone posts something that ends up getting deleted, as far as I can tell, their "favorites count" (total, the one on their user page) still counts the favorites related to that deleted item. I'm not positive that this is true for posts (I don't know how to tell, other than finding an example like the following), but I know it's true for comments. Example: I recently posted the following comment to this thread: Guess where I am right now. It got a few favorites but apparently a mod thought it was more of a wisecrack than it was a legitimate answer to the question, so it got zapped. I was on my user page prior to making the comment and I know for a fact that my favorites count total went up and now still includes however many favorites that comment got. E.g. - the total didn't change, therefore I have some kind of "ghost favorites." A) Is this a feature, not a bug? B) Is there any way to see these ghost favorites, at least for posts, if not comments, for a given user? C) If I favorite a comment that is then deleted, does that disappear from my favorites total count? I know TPS already won the popularity contest and all of that, it just seems like favorite counts could be remarkably erroneous based on this.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:25:27 -0800

This is a known bug. We should probably fix it because of the meatware bug of pointing it out after one has a joke they were particularly fond of deleted from AskMe. Thanks for reposting your deleted joke though.

By: allkindsoftime

allkindsoftime — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:30:45 -0800

You're welcome :)

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:39:57 -0800

Also, TPS totes cheated.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:19:46 -0800

"Cheated" may be a bit harsh. "Creatively misrepresentative," maybe.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:23:50 -0800

wevs

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:26:17 -0800

tl;dr

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:01:44 -0800

\D:_

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:41:25 -0800

cortex is mad jealous.

By: solipsophistocracy

solipsophistocracy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:48:50 -0800

For what it's worth, I thought that joke was awesome. I now regret not favoriting it, and contributing to your ghost favorite total.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:10:54 -0800

pffft, bet I beat you to 10k

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:23:51 -0800

panderers, th' lot of ye.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:38:56 -0800

Good luck with that.

By: pb

pb — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:23:12 -0800

Favorite counts are reset every night at 1:05 AM Pacific. We have a batch job that runs at the time and removes favorites on deleted comments. So you won't see a miscount more than 24 hours or so.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:52:37 -0800

Fedora-based favorites do not count, madam.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:28:28 -0800

And yet, there they are.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:30:44 -0800

Favorite bug report.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:11:51 -0800

FWIW, I think it was an excellent answer to the question. The question (arguably chatfilter) boiled down to "What do you do while shitting?" While allkindsoftime was a bit clever about it, he provided just as much information as many other contributors to the thread.

By: bru

bru — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:15:12 -0800

meatware bug: a very needed new MetaTalk category (or a new Shyamalan film).