Misattributed favourite

March 24, 2007 11:02 PM

This anonymous question showed up on my list of "posts by divabat saved as favourites". I didn't write that post.
posted by divabat to Bugs at 11:02 PM (16 comments total)

So you admit it! You plagiarised it! sorry.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 11:10 PM on March 24, 2007

Double. Secret. Probation.
posted by Dizzy at 11:12 PM on March 24, 2007

I didn't write that post.

The MetaFilter disagrees.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 11:15 PM on March 24, 2007

And while we're on the topic of favorite bugs, did anybody else notice the double favorite that this comment got from frogan?
posted by kisch mokusch at 11:48 PM on March 24, 2007

If you go to the post and check the people who saved it as a favorite, your name is in the list... Are you sure you weren't looking at posts that you saved as favorites rather than posts "by" you?
posted by amyms at 12:03 AM on March 25, 2007

amyms, you can see for yourself, it's a genuine bug.
posted by kisch mokusch at 12:12 AM on March 25, 2007

you can see for yourself, it's a genuine bug

Oops, I'm sorry. I was approaching it from the wrong angle.
posted by amyms at 12:18 AM on March 25, 2007

acute?
posted by edgeways at 12:55 AM on March 25, 2007

acute?

don't be obtuse.
posted by carsonb at 1:12 AM on March 25, 2007

don't be obtuse.

No, edgeways is right.
posted by greycap at 1:58 AM on March 26, 2007

With that sort of regular abuse of the favouriting functionality, I think it's high time the favourites fought back! Viva la resistance!

I kid. I always feel giddy when someone favourite my posts. ;-)
posted by PuGZ at 3:28 AM on March 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

I saw Celise.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:29 AM on March 26, 2007

did anybody else notice the double favorite that this comment got from frogan

The comment so nice, he liked it twice.
posted by Meatbomb at 6:04 AM on March 26, 2007

This comment shows up in the list of Comments from null terminated saved as favorites. (I favorited the link, I didn't write it).
posted by null terminated at 11:15 AM on March 26, 2007

I had the same problem as null terminated with the test comment Matt made when AJAX unfavouriting was implemented. Unfavouriting and refavouriting fixed it though, so I assume it was buggy data from a bug that had already been fixed.
posted by fvw at 2:32 PM on March 26, 2007

Hey fvw, that worked! Thanks!
posted by divabat at 10:34 PM on March 26, 2007