Bug related to moved topics

Defender

Certain fields in topics remain constant even after the topic has been altered.

For example, pressing "Reply" (not "Quote") will generate the ORIGINAL topic title for the reply. So if I make a thread called "X" and then later on I edit the first post to have the title "Y", people who press "Reply" will reply with title "RE: X" instead of "RE: Y". That doesn't really matter, but I think it's symptomatic of a larger issue.

More significantly, and I once got temp-banned by ActifBlue because of this, if you post in a Moved thread, and then in the "post submitted" screen, you click "Return To Forum," it takes you to the ORIGINAL forum for that thread. So when bonedaddy moved the "Monday, Monday, Monday" thread to SE++ from H/A, I posted in it, then clicked "Return To Forum," and then found myself in H/A, even though I had been browsing SE++. Basically I got temp-banned one time for acting like I was in SE++ when I didn't realize I had been involuntarily moved to H/A. I think this is a bug dealing with the original post record not being affected by certain types of edits, including title edits and moves to other forums.

Tube

Explain to me how this is important.

Bergy

I was jailed because I didn't know I was in H/A one time after a topic got moved.

Tube

I'm going to go ahead and call that stupidity tax.

Ramius

Defender wrote:

Certain fields in topics remain constant even after the topic has been altered.

For example, pressing "Reply" (not "Quote") will generate the ORIGINAL topic title for the reply. So if I make a thread called "X" and then later on I edit the first post to have the title "Y", people who press "Reply" will reply with title "RE: X" instead of "RE: Y". That doesn't really matter, but I think it's symptomatic of a larger issue.

More significantly, and I once got temp-banned by ActifBlue because of this, if you post in a Moved thread, and then in the "post submitted" screen, you click "Return To Forum," it takes you to the ORIGINAL forum for that thread. So when bonedaddy moved the "Monday, Monday, Monday" thread to SE++ from H/A, I posted in it, then clicked "Return To Forum," and then found myself in H/A, even though I had been browsing SE++. Basically I got temp-banned one time for acting like I was in SE++ when I didn't realize I had been involuntarily moved to H/A. I think this is a bug dealing with the original post record not being affected by certain types of edits, including title edits and moves to other forums.

Part one I don't really care about. It works as it should, when you reply to a post, it generates "Re: whatever that POST was", not "Re: whatever the topic is".

Part two is interesting, but not a pressing issue. If I'm ever looking at the code for the "Return to Forum" link, I'll see if I might bother myself to remember to see why it does that.

Raijin Quickfoot

This is the most interesting thing I've seen all day...and I saw a cat juggling midgets walking down the street.

Defender

Cardboard Tube wrote:

Explain to me how this is important.

That's easy. If this were my code, I would want someone to point it out to me. Even if it's not a crippling "OH NOES THE CLOCKS ARE WRONG NOBODY CAN POST" issue, it's something that doesn't work the way it should. When I reply to a thread in Forum X, and I say "return to forum," I should go back to Forum X, not Forum Y Where The Thread Was First Made But Now It's Not There Anymore.

Christ. It's not like I came in here whining about how this forum sucks because of some tiny bug. But as a programmer, it's nice to know these things. And I'll go further to say that sometimes the big bugs, the ones that really matter, are fixed when the programmer recalls some little thing that wasn't a big enough deal to fix, but that was clearly symptomatic of a larger issue. Those little clues often help in unravelling the more serious problems.

bone daddy

You know, I could swear you got temp-banned for posting in a sticky that had never been moved to or from anywhere. Something about stabbing someone in the face, if I recall.

Not that that really has anything to do with the price of tea in China, but still....

Defender

bone daddy wrote:

You know, I could swear you got temp-banned for posting in a sticky that had never been moved to or from anywhere. Something about stabbing someone in the face, if I recall.

Not that that really has anything to do with the price of tea in China, but still....

Yeah, that's what it was.

It wasn't that the Sticky had been moved, it's that something else had been moved, I posted in that, then I went "WTF new sticky?" and posted in there.

And to be fair, that baby definitely deserved a stab in the face.

Tube

Stupidity tax.

Garlic Bread

Cardboard Tube wrote:

Stupidity tax.

Title nazi.

Bergy

I wasn't complaing, just saying it happens, jailing didn't bother me.

Tube

Bergy is my favourite Bergy.

Bergy

You're my favorite British Cardboard Tube.

Tube

So what, you've been seeing an American Cardboard Tube behind my back?

I can't believe this.

I am betrayed.

Bergy

actually he was Canadian.

I didn't want to tell you.

I'm sorry it had to come to this.

Tube

I... I'll fucking ban him.

Bergy

:oops:

I'm all hot and bothered now.

Ramius

Well, upon further consideration, the bug as you described it isn't a bug.

When you click on a Moved thread, you are now in a different forum. The forum system doesn't keep such close track of your activities to know where you were last, and I'm not going to program that sort of memory into it.

At the top and bottom of the page you are looking at before you hit the "Post Reply" button, there will be links which look like:
Forum Index » Help / Advice Forum

Also, at the top of the page where you are typing your reply, the same links will appear.

The one thing I can look into doing is have the text say "Click here to return to the "xxx" forum" instead of just "Click here to return", but that is the best you are going to get.