Safari/Firefox on OSX userpage comments discrepancy

April 7, 2005 5:28 PM

My user page lists 347 comments to MetaTalk, but when I click on that 347, I get a display of 1-50 of 432 comments. No similar discrepancy for MetaFilter or AskMetafilter. This as viewed in Safari and Firefox under OSX 10.3.8.
posted by squirrel to Bugs at 5:28 PM (15 comments total)

Discussed here, I think. Unless that was different. I'm not sure there was ever a resolution.
posted by anapestic at 5:33 PM on April 7, 2005

Yeah, seems to be the same issue. Likely theories there. Sorry, missed that thread. Can I have my weekly MeTa post token back? I want to complain that someone spelled color with a "u".
posted by squirrel at 5:56 PM on April 7, 2005

squirrel : "I want to complain that someone spelled color with a 'u'."

Me? I only did it because the thread was about Canada! It seemed appropriate!

please don't stone me.
posted by painquale at 6:40 PM on April 7, 2005

Far be it from me to get anybody stoned.
posted by squirrel at 6:54 PM on April 7, 2005

Those missing comments I believe are on deleted posts, which are all hidden.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:00 PM on April 7, 2005

I can't be positive, but I'm pretty sure the spell checker wants to change "Metafilter" into "Mafia," too.
posted by crunchland at 7:07 PM on April 7, 2005

heh.
posted by raedyn at 9:02 PM on April 7, 2005

squirrel: will you make it to the meetup?
posted by quasistoic at 9:25 PM on April 7, 2005

Answered in that thread, q. This one will blip soon.
posted by squirrel at 9:52 PM on April 7, 2005

I don't think that's it, Matt. The MetaTalk posting history pages reflect the larger number, not the smaller number that shows up as as part of the posting summary on the user's main profile page.
posted by taz at 10:01 PM on April 7, 2005

Well, I'll have to look at my counts again and see what the discrepency is. I might be not counting deleted stuff for the user page but displaying deleted in the output, if it's the other way around as you say taz.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:19 PM on April 7, 2005

Actually, for me (for mefi) it brings up threads on which I didn't comment, but went so far as to preview a comment before changing my mind.

It's like thoughtcomments or something.
posted by frecklefaerie at 11:01 PM on April 7, 2005

frecklefaerie, you probably thought you were previewing, but you really posted (you just clicked the wrong button). Each of these brings up a posted comment by you in the thread.
posted by taz at 1:05 AM on April 8, 2005

When did askmefi and meta diverge? quonsar suggested in the other thread that their splitting caused this problem.
posted by koeselitz at 8:47 AM on April 8, 2005

Hm. Well, I didn't arrive until after the split... so...
posted by squirrel at 12:49 AM on April 9, 2005