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Wrongful Alert?

WhiteWhiskey

WhiteWhiskey

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So I've had a small issue that seems like it could be worth bringing up just in case. I had an alert of someone quoting my post, in a thread I've never posted in.

My Alerts tab said this post is quoting a post of mine. Not a major thing, but was worried if the forum might start mixing things up and issues that could come of that
 
WhiteWhiskey said:
So I've had a small issue that seems like it could be worth bringing up just in case. I had an alert of someone quoting my post, in a thread I've never posted in.

My Alerts tab said this post is quoting a post of mine. Not a major thing, but was worried if the forum might start mixing things up and issues that could come of that
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Note that if the post had a quote of you when made, but it was then edited out (before the point where it displays that it was edited), you would still get an alert.
 
Using my modly powers, I will confirm that was the case (the post originally had WhiteWhiskey quoted in it, but that was since edited out).

Thanks for asking!
 
Ah, alright, wasn't aware that could happen in a thread I hadn't posted in
 
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Ah, alright, wasn't aware that could happen in a thread I hadn't posted in
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The multiquote feature carries across threads, and quote alerts still function when quoted in another thread than the quote was from. This can be useful (for re-homing derails and such), but it can also mean that you multiquote someone in one thread, forget about it and go to another thread, collect some quotes from the second thread, and then "insert quotes" without checking that they're all from the right thread. The usual reaction to noticing that one has done this is to delete the erroneous quote, which indeed would seem to be what happened here.
 
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