I have a force multiplier?

February 28, 2007 12:06 PM

Something weirder is going on. Things I do keep getting doubled !. WTF?
posted by rbs to bugs at 12:06 PM (27 comments total)

[this is weird]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:10 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]

[this is wierd]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:11 PM on February 28, 2007

Are you a bookkeeper?
posted by Plutor at 12:13 PM on February 28, 2007

What I mean is that, the other day, I posted an askme and it posted twice. Inexplicably (and against what should be the mefi rules). Matthowie thought it was strange. Now, making things a favorite has done the same.
posted by rbs at 12:15 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]

weird. Are you on a strange corporate network with a cache server or something?
posted by mathowie at 12:18 PM on February 28, 2007

Can you see that I favorited his last comment? For me, it currently shows + 1 favorite, but clicking it says no one has favorited it. I've refreshed several times. This was after a favorite, remove favorite, re-favorite.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:21 PM on February 28, 2007

Okay - now it's showing up. I wonder if there's enough of a delay to allow doubling up?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:21 PM on February 28, 2007

I'm pretty sure I do a lookup to make sure you can't favorite something twice. You should see a "you already added this as a favorite" message when you try to do that.
posted by mathowie at 12:26 PM on February 28, 2007

toil and trouble!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:27 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]

You should see a "you already added this as a favorite" message when you try to do that.

I do. I've tried all the combinations I could think of, and can't duplicate. Must be something specific to rbs' setup.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:29 PM on February 28, 2007

It's weird. I only clicked to favorite it once, but it showed up twice.

I am at a middle school that has some websense proxy or something. But mefi shouldn't let that break it, right?
posted by rbs at 12:34 PM on February 28, 2007

Weird.

Perhaps it is some evil karmic commentary on his tendency to spell "mathowie" with two t's.
posted by cortex at 12:34 PM on February 28, 2007

You're like Gully Foyle in The Stars My Destination. One of those rbs's is burning.
posted by breezeway at 12:52 PM on February 28, 2007

breezeway's comment needs ascii art to follow it, but not from I.
posted by edgeways at 12:58 PM on February 28, 2007

Huh. I just noticed that this old post of mine was double favorited by jshort. Weird.
posted by maryh at 1:09 PM on February 28, 2007

God did it.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:11 PM on February 28, 2007

It's not weird. It's nothing sinister. It's a dumb bug and I'm sure Matt will figure it out - provided it's on his end there's an issue. Maybe you need to fix the settings on your mouse or something.
posted by frecklefaerie at 1:22 PM on February 28, 2007

are you using two keyboards?
posted by shmegegge at 1:25 PM on February 28, 2007

"I want to talk to rbs."

**slaps monitor with back of hand**

"LET ME TALK TO RBS!"
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 1:33 PM on February 28, 2007

Go into your browser settings, click Advanced, scroll down a bit, and uncheck the "Double Post" option.
posted by jefbla at 2:18 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]

Dimensional gateway? Are we seeing manifestations of a mirror-rbs?

*returns to reading Rudy Rucker*
posted by brundlefly at 2:26 PM on February 28, 2007

I wonder if this is similar to my problem wherein every once in a while, a comment I make gets posted twice... or thrice! To the amusement of many.
posted by Effigy2000 at 2:26 PM on February 28, 2007

I'm pretty sure I do a lookup to make sure you can't favorite something twice.

Do you lock the database before doing the check until after doing the update? Because otherwise, if two instances of the script are run at the same time, they can both do the check, find nothing wrong, and then both do the save, resulting in two favourites being added.
posted by cillit bang at 3:03 PM on February 28, 2007

Try chewing different gum?
posted by isopraxis at 4:52 PM on February 28, 2007

Speak up so AskMe doesn't have to repeat itself.
posted by baphomet at 5:00 PM on February 28, 2007

Come again?
posted by carsonb at 3:56 AM on March 1, 2007

Come again?

Yes please.
posted by flipper at 9:59 AM on March 1, 2007