So I have a shady contact or two...

December 10, 2007 6:42 PM

1. So I add a contact for the sake of entertainment perhaps. 2. Their account is then disabled. 3. I can't get rid of them from my contact list? Argh.
posted by drpynchon to Bugs at 6:42 PM (13 comments total)

Let this be a lesson to you.
posted by dg at 6:57 PM on December 10, 2007 [2 favorites]

Next time be more careful about who you link to.

But seriously, did you try hitting the link

http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/xfndelete.mefi?to_user=XXX

...where you replace XXX by the contact's id number?
posted by whir at 6:57 PM on December 10, 2007 [1 favorite]

1. So I add a contact for the sake of entertainment perhaps. 2. Their account is then disabled. 3. I can't get rid of them from my contact list? Argh.

You're paying way too much attention to your contacts list, drpynchon.
posted by jayder at 7:04 PM on December 10, 2007

You know, these things come back to haunt you. It's the holiday season. Can't I overcome my past and have a second chance?

Incidentally, looks like you're right whir. Your crazy matrix html haX0rinz is strong.
posted by drpynchon at 7:10 PM on December 10, 2007

for the sake of entertainment: I GOT REALLY FUCKED UP LAST NIGHT AND DID A FEW RAILS AND ADDED SOME CONTACTS ON METAFILTER FUCK YEAH WOOOOOWOOOOO
posted by dhammond at 7:29 PM on December 10, 2007 [2 favorites]

And I thought... *sniff* I... thought you... *sniff* ... really cared. Damn you, dhammond!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:45 PM on December 10, 2007

We'll fix this tomorrow so that the remove contact link shows up even on people with locked accounts.

Of course, if they're no longer using the site, the contacts activity doesn't change, right? It's not like they'd keep popping up in recent activity.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:10 PM on December 10, 2007

matt, you really think THAT is why we add contacts?

Silly leader.
posted by konolia at 8:27 PM on December 10, 2007

quonsar will be back after the election nonsense has died down. In mid-2009.
posted by Eideteker at 3:58 AM on December 11, 2007

But I can still keep the hat, right?
posted by Meatbomb at 5:35 AM on December 11, 2007

You should be able to remove disabled contacts now.
posted by pb (staff) at 10:34 AM on December 11, 2007

*calls ADA*
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:41 AM on December 11, 2007 [2 favorites]

http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/xfndelete.mefi?to_user=XXX

That also works if you want to delete yourself as a contact. If, of course, you were silly enough to list yourself as a contact. Which I was. But now I'm not. Well, I am still silly but linking to myself was bothering me. Seemed rather too meta.

I'll be going now.
posted by deborah at 8:33 PM on December 11, 2007