Delete and favorite query

April 10, 2012 5:38 AM

Are search and favorite broken?

I posted a double, but it doesn't come up in the search even though it's the exact same address. How does that happen? It also still has a favorite attached. I thought they were expunged if the post was deleted.

posted by unliteral to Bugs at 5:38 AM (20 comments total)

Nope; I was confused, too, but the older one was at http://www.queermusicheritage.us/camp.html. Tricky!
posted by taz (staff) at 5:40 AM on April 10, 2012

Damn - a double.
posted by unliteral at 5:41 AM on April 10, 2012

Another example of the US fuckin' shit up again.
posted by gman at 5:47 AM on April 10, 2012

Ah! so http://www.queermusicheritage.com/camp.html now resolves to http://www.queermusicheritage.com.us/camp.html very tricky indeed.
posted by unliteral at 5:48 AM on April 10, 2012

Now, about that favorite.
posted by unliteral at 5:49 AM on April 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

Since this is open about that thread already - I understand this is a textbook double post, but ... six years! If the FPP had had more padding links and a "Previously", it probably would've stood.

I wouldn't want to open the floodgates to repost everything that was put on the site 5 years ago (I wonder how many of those links still work) - but I also wouldn't mind something like this being left to stick around.
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 5:53 AM on April 10, 2012

unliteral: Now, about that favorite.

You should totally remove it to save your five+ year unblemished record here.
posted by gman at 5:54 AM on April 10, 2012

Another example of the US fuckin' shit up again.

I think the blame here lies with the queers and their music heritage. US didn't ask them to redirect their website, did they?
posted by Meatbomb at 5:56 AM on April 10, 2012

Meatbomb's got it: our superpower is that everything that goes wrong is always our fault.
posted by rtha at 6:17 AM on April 10, 2012 [3 favorites]

"Now Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big underground homosexual population - Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can't build on it, you can't grow anything in it. The government says it's due to poor farming. But I know what's really going on, Stuart. I know it's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians."
posted by drlith at 6:33 AM on April 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

You should totally remove it to save your five+ year unblemished record here
Done and done.
posted by unliteral at 6:39 AM on April 10, 2012

Padding or [via], but you're going to have to dig deep.
posted by unliteral at 6:56 AM on April 10, 2012

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posted by clavdivs at 7:01 AM on April 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

I thought they were expunged if the post was deleted.

We build in some lag time. Favorites on deleted posts are removed every hour or so. Sometimes deleted posts are reinstated and it's good to leave those favorites in those cases.
posted by pb (staff) at 7:15 AM on April 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

We build in some lag time. Favorites on deleted posts are removed every hour or so.

Ah! that explains why I saw it still hanging around for some time but it is no longer there.
2 Ahs! in one day.
posted by unliteral at 7:24 AM on April 10, 2012

They're building landing strips for gay Martians.

Oh, for an image tag.
posted by octobersurprise at 7:25 AM on April 10, 2012 [2 favorites]

our superpower is that everything that goes wrong is always our fault.

QUEEEEEERS!
*shakes fist at sky*
posted by LobsterMitten at 10:12 AM on April 10, 2012 [2 favorites]

Favorites on deleted posts are removed every hour or so.

Favorites on *comments* in deleted threads still remain, though, right? I kinda like that.
posted by mediareport at 2:05 PM on April 10, 2012

Yeah, that's true. We don't remove favorites on comments in deleted threads.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:22 PM on April 10, 2012

I made a bunch of comments, and they received less than 50 favorites each - is it possible that favorites are broken? I'm thinking there must be a problem with the backend or something...
posted by Salvor Hardin at 3:55 AM on April 11, 2012 [1 favorite]