I did NOT flag that as fantastic.

March 29, 2006 4:10 AM

The Fantastic AskMe posts page appears to claim that I flagged this now deceased thread as a fantastic post. I'm pretty sure I didn't, and flagged it for some other reason so that it could be deleted.

Is anyone else on the list thinking that they didn't flag that one as fantastic?
posted by edd to Bugs at 4:10 AM (22 comments total)

I've been noticing an awful lot of comments marked fantastic lately, I was wondering if maybe something was up.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:34 AM on March 29, 2006

weird!

It's funny, because I was reading the Googlebot thread at the same time and half-wondered if the questioner had added in some surreptious code to autoflag anyone that tried to flag that post. Or something.

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posted by divabat at 4:36 AM on March 29, 2006

Whoa- I don't think I flagged that post as Fantastic, either.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 5:09 AM on March 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

Puke and Cry seems to have flagged it 3 times...
posted by handee at 5:14 AM on March 29, 2006

I know that I flagged it as "breaks the guidelines" (or noise?). Definitely not "fantastic post".
posted by unknowncommand at 5:16 AM on March 29, 2006

I don't recall flagging the Monty Hall one.
posted by cillit bang at 5:16 AM on March 29, 2006

I'm on the list, too. I'm pretty sure I flagged it as noise but it has me down for fantastic. How very odd.
posted by baphomet at 5:34 AM on March 29, 2006

I just flagged it as "Breaks the guidelines" and lo, there I am on the fantastic page. Hmmm.
posted by blag at 5:39 AM on March 29, 2006

Yea, I flagged it as "Breaks the Guidelines", too.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 5:45 AM on March 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

brownpau and blag, in the flag queue I see your flags as "breaks the guidelines" so this must be some sort of problem with that page and not the flagging feature.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:05 AM on March 29, 2006

The implication being, of course, that flagging in general is fantastic.
posted by cortex at 6:23 AM on March 29, 2006

yep - I certainly did not flag that crap as fantastic.
posted by Julnyes at 6:41 AM on March 29, 2006

Yeah, same here, I hit "Breaks guidelines" or "noise" or something. Although it was fantastic in it's own way, I didn't flag it as such.
posted by OmieWise at 6:51 AM on March 29, 2006

I just now tried flagging it as "breaks the guidelines" (flagging still works for deleted threads!) and am now listed there as well.
posted by brownpau at 7:01 AM on March 29, 2006

yeah, lemme fix that.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:42 AM on March 29, 2006

No! We insist you leave it broken!
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:38 AM on March 29, 2006

flagged as bronken.
posted by blue_beetle at 8:56 AM on March 29, 2006

Well, it's mostly fixed now. Everything except one thread is showing correct votes and counts, but I have no idea why one is showing a bunch of names that didn't vote on a link.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:59 AM on March 29, 2006

yeah I flagged it but not as fantastic.
posted by puke & cry at 11:00 AM on March 29, 2006

MetaFilter: I certainly did not flag that crap as fantastic.
posted by S.C. at 11:48 AM on March 29, 2006

craptacular?
posted by blue_beetle at 3:32 PM on March 29, 2006

MetaFilter: No! We insist you leave it broken!
posted by SpecialK at 3:50 PM on March 29, 2006