Comments in posting history not in order

February 10, 2002 4:27 PM

Miguel's comment got me to check my posting history (it's an ugly thing to do, I don't recommend it). Anyway, I found that the comments I posted aren't in any kind of order. (more inside)
posted by mr_crash_davis to Bugs at 4:27 PM (9 comments total)

Example:

On this thread I posted five comments. When I click on my posting history, it shows the five comments in a random order:

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/14485#219408
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/14485#220096
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/14485#219588
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/14485#219558
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/14485#220503

For some reason I expected the comments to follow the bottom-to-top oldest-to-newest order.

Not a major nitpick (who actually wants to read their own old comments anyway?) just an observation.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:31 PM on February 10, 2002

ok, I'll order them.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:42 PM on February 10, 2002

Wow, that was easy. Can I have a pony too?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:48 PM on February 10, 2002

No, Crash, you don't understand - he means he'll order them removed. Forthwith.

Can I just take this opportunity to say that evanizer, Mr February himself, no.13519 no less, is trying to subvert every single moral and historical principle in our community by posting to the very first MetaFilter threads, which then show up on his user profile as being his first? Already many fellow users are telling me that he was here from day one and that I should stop persecuting the venerable pioneer! Is this harrumph material or what? ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:17 PM on February 10, 2002

This is all really too, too much.
posted by ColdChef at 7:42 PM on February 10, 2002

That's hilarious, Miguel.

Watch my self-control as I not-post in Thread #1....
posted by rushmc at 9:25 AM on February 11, 2002

That's hilarious, Miguel.

Watch my self-control as I not-post in Thread #1....
posted by rushmc at 9:26 AM on February 11, 2002

(and lose it in doubleposting here...)
posted by rushmc at 9:27 AM on February 11, 2002

All this multi-thread posting reminds me of the old Bugs Bunny cartoon where he's being chased into and out of hundreds of doors in an endless hallway by a giant hairy monster.

*Opens door 9622, jumps in - ColdChef leaps out of door 19 - UncleFes opens 11629, shrieks in horror, runs back to 42*

All the while Raymond Scott's Powerhouse plays.
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:50 AM on February 11, 2002