I probably shouldn't be able to mark my own comments as fantastic.

December 9, 2005 11:40 AM

I probably shouldn't be able to mark my own comments as fantastic.
posted by kenko to Bugs at 11:40 AM (29 comments total)

Why not? It'll balance out with me always marking your comments as "noise".
posted by Plutor at 11:44 AM on December 9, 2005

Meh, on rare occasions people figure out the answer to their own problems and it's useful. Have you seen any actul abuse, or are you objecting the the feature in theory?
posted by SeizeTheDay at 11:47 AM on December 9, 2005

actual abuse
objecting to the feature
posted by SeizeTheDay at 11:47 AM on December 9, 2005

It's my understanding that flagging delivers to the admins not just the content of the flag but the user who flagged it, no? If so, it would be pretty hard to abuse this without flagging yourself as someone asking for a timeout or worse.
posted by soyjoy at 11:48 AM on December 9, 2005

Oops, I read the question wrong. Sorry. soyjoy's right.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 11:52 AM on December 9, 2005

Here's an example where I flagged my own answer as best.
posted by grateful at 12:07 PM on December 9, 2005

Marking your own answer as best is okay, flagging one of your own comments as fantastic is silly.
posted by Gator at 12:12 PM on December 9, 2005

flagging and marking and meta, oh my!
posted by quonsar at 12:13 PM on December 9, 2005

teh.
posted by keswick at 12:13 PM on December 9, 2005

*zzzzzzzZzZsnort* What the? Who? Oh. Hey... *zzzzzZzzz*
posted by loquacious at 12:19 PM on December 9, 2005

What diffrence could it possibly make? Other then train the admins to ignore your flags.
posted by Paris Hilton at 12:36 PM on December 9, 2005

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posted by languagehat at 12:41 PM on December 9, 2005

Say, what does it mean when someone posts a dot?
posted by languagehat at 12:41 PM on December 9, 2005

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posted by JeffK at 12:47 PM on December 9, 2005

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posted by languagehat at 12:51 PM on December 9, 2005

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posted by 6550 at 1:08 PM on December 9, 2005

[flag away everybody, I expect to see this on the sidebar by dinner]
posted by If I Had An Anus at 1:12 PM on December 9, 2005

That's what we're having for dinner?

*orders pizza*
posted by languagehat at 1:13 PM on December 9, 2005

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posted by kosem at 1:34 PM on December 9, 2005

But its still okay for sock puppets to mark their regular account's FPP's as fantastic, right? Right? Oh shit.
posted by fenriq at 1:34 PM on December 9, 2005

I think this is the problem with being able to mark your own posts as fantastic.

*shrugs*

Someone will abuse it. They'll be called out. There may or may not be an administrative fix at that time.
posted by frykitty at 1:47 PM on December 9, 2005

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posted by gramschmidt at 1:50 PM on December 9, 2005

posted by keswick at 1:53 PM on December 9, 2005

posted by gramschmidt at 2:06 PM on December 9, 2005

I don't even know how to mark comments...
posted by Smedleyman at 3:07 PM on December 9, 2005

What frykitty said.
posted by kenko at 5:57 PM on December 9, 2005

Though I also concur with the gif-posting.
posted by kenko at 5:57 PM on December 9, 2005

They cursed us. Murderer they called us.

And we wept, precious. We wept.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 6:21 PM on December 9, 2005

Flagged.
posted by Wolof at 6:42 PM on December 9, 2005