topic How Did This Happen??? in Community Chat

How Did This Happen???

mistriTsquirrel — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:41:36 GMT

On another thread, I posted this:

mistriTsquirrel03/24/2014 at 12:37 AM10307 PostsRegistered 7/17/2010Purgatory, USA

On 3/23/2014 azterry! said:
On 3/23/2014 occasional rain said:
I'm not interested in the K clan but many seem to be. So, who is to say she doesn't deserve to be on the cover? The point of the cover of any magazine is to sell more of them. This isn't charity or a tip, it's business. Of course Kim shouldn't have turned it down.

ITA

Kate Middleton's only claim to fame is that she married a prince.

She has appeared on numerous covers and is given adulation for her alleged fashion sense. Other than her "princess duties" she has no remarkable talent.

Is her fashion sense really even her own? She probably has stylists, yes?

Not that she isn't a lovely young woman, but you're right...she's not a celebrity based on merit.

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Somehow, it got changed in the quoting process...

Lavinia03/24/2014 at 12:41 AM632 PostsRegistered 3/20/2013

Well then maybe Kim should either get a stylist or start listening to someone because she usually looks awful at least 90 percent of the time. Kim does not even have the "talent" to look good in clothes.

On 3/23/2014 Vogue said:
On 3/23/2014 azterry! said:
On 3/23/2014 occasional rain said:
I'm not interested in the K clan but many seem to be. So, who is to say she doesn't deserve to be on the cover? The point of the cover of any magazine is to sell more of them. This isn't charity or a tip, it's business. Of course Kim shouldn't have turned it down.

ITA

Kate Middleton's only claim to fame is that she married a prince.

She has appeared on numerous covers and is given adulation for her alleged fashion sense. Other than her "princess duties" she has no remarkable talent.

Is her fashion sense really even her own? She probably has stylists, yes?

Not that she isn't a lovely young woman, but you're right...she's not a celebrity based on merit.

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Somehow, my nic was changed to "Vogue," and the date of my reply was changed to 3/23 (underlined above, along with my own words, which were wrongly attributed to "Vogue").

Would someone please explain to me how that happened???

Re: How Did This Happen???

mistriTsquirrel — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:45:06 GMT

Sorry I couldn't copy the actual boxes around the quotes to make it clearer who said what; these quotes were taken from the first page of this thread: http://community.qvc.com/forums/viewpoints/topic/439905/pagenumber/1/index.aspx

Re: How Did This Happen???

bikerbabe — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:48:44 GMT

Mistri,

I went to the thread and tested it. When you quote, you can edit anything, incldung posters names and dates. Not good. I never realized that could be done.

Re: How Did This Happen???

dooBdoo — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:50:45 GMT

Hi, mistri! I’ll take a shot at it. When using certain mobile devices, particularly older models, the only way to quote is by inserting your comments at the top of the quotes. When this is done, sometimes the person inadvertently edits the portion that was supposed to be quoted and not edited. It appears this is what's happening with Lavinia. My guess is she somehow managed to get the magazine name in the place of your nickname.

Re: How Did This Happen???

occasionalrain — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:51:38 GMT

I noticed earlier that the responses were appearing above the quoted post which caused posts to be attributed to the wrong poster. If you remember two days in a row they closed the BB at 10PM for maintenance so this must be the result. I wonder if they get their techies from some junior college in Philly.

Re: How Did This Happen???

mistriTsquirrel — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:52:36 GMT

On 3/24/2014 bikerbabe said:
Mistri,

I went to the thread and tested it. When you quote, you can edit anything, incldung posters names and dates. Not good. I never realized that could be done.

I didn't either...and I don't like it.

But I can't imagine why someone would change both my nic and the date of my reply in this particular instance; there was no reason to. That's why I was wondering if there was a glitch.

Re: How Did This Happen???

bikerbabe — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:53:58 GMT

On 3/24/2014 occasional rain said:
I noticed earlier that the responses were appearing above the quoted post which caused posts to be attributed to the wrong poster. If you remember two days in a row they closed the BB at 10PM for maintenance so this must be the result. I wonder if they get their techies from some junior college in Philly.

Re: How Did This Happen???

dooBdoo — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:54:12 GMT

On 3/24/2014 occasional rain said:
I noticed earlier that the responses were appearing above the quoted post which caused posts to be attributed to the wrong poster. If you remember two days in a row they closed the BB at 10PM for maintenance so this must be the result. I wonder if they get their techies from some junior college in Philly.

It's not the changes they made here -- it's an ongoing problem in using older devices (usually those that can no longer install new software updates). As time passes, websites can only be expected to accommodate so many old software versions.

Re: How Did This Happen???

dooBdoo — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:54:54 GMT

On 3/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
On 3/24/2014 bikerbabe said:
Mistri,

I went to the thread and tested it. When you quote, you can edit anything, incldung posters names and dates. Not good. I never realized that could be done.

I didn't either...and I don't like it.

But I can't imagine why someone would change both my nic and the date of my reply in this particular instance; there was no reason to. That's why I was wondering if there was a glitch.

I'd still say it was just an editing error she made.

Re: How Did This Happen???

bikerbabe — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:57:29 GMT

I agree it's likely a weird error in this case.

Re: How Did This Happen???

mistriTsquirrel — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:58:53 GMT

On 3/24/2014 dooBdoo said:
Hi, mistri! I’ll take a shot at it. When using certain mobile devices, particularly older models, the only way to quote is by inserting your comments at the top of the quotes. When this is done, sometimes the person inadvertently edits the portion that was supposed to be quoted and not edited. It appears this is what's happening with Lavinia. My guess is she somehow managed to get the magazine name in the place of your nickname.

But, how did the date get changed? It seems like, if there was some sort of accidental deletion or something that the date would simply not appear at all. It didn't disappear; it was changed from 3/24/2014 to 3/23/2014. I know you can't tell in the original post of this thread, but if you go to the linked thread, you can see the dates, instead of "NaN/NaN/NaN at NaN:NaN AM."

Re: How Did This Happen???

dooBdoo — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:02:03 GMT

On 3/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
On 3/24/2014 dooBdoo said:
Hi, <em>mistri</em>! I’ll take a shot at it. When using certain mobile devices, particularly older models, the only way to quote is by inserting your comments at the top of the quotes. When this is done, sometimes the person inadvertently edits the portion that was supposed to be quoted and not edited. It appears this is what's happening with <em>Lavinia</em>. My guess is she somehow managed to get the magazine name in the place of your nickname.

But, how did the date get changed? It seems like, if there was some sort of accidental deletion or something that the date would simply not appear at all. It didn't disappear; it was changed from 3/24/2014 to 3/23/2014. I know you can't tell in the original post of this thread, but if you go to the linked thread, you can see the dates, instead of "NaN/NaN/NaN at NaN:NaN AM."

When you click on "Quote" the entire text becomes editable. So, in trying to "clean up" the post it's very easy (and common -- I've seen it numerous times) to change words, names, and numbers without meaning to.

Re: How Did This Happen???

maryebrown_1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:04:52 GMT

gremlins

Re: How Did This Happen???

mistriTsquirrel — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:11:16 GMT

I was just looking at the first page of Viewpoints...is someone bumping up old threads again?

Re: How Did This Happen???

lovescats — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:11:21 GMT

I don't know if I saw all the posts that were like that on the thread but I thought the OP was doing that to posts she answered on the thread because maybe thought it showed the conversation better?

Re: How Did This Happen???

dooBdoo — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:13:02 GMT

On 3/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
I was just looking at the first page of Viewpoints...is someone bumping up old threads again?

They all look like current threads to me, mistri. What do you see?

Re: How Did This Happen???

mistriTsquirrel — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:14:48 GMT

On 3/24/2014 dooBdoo said:
On 3/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
I was just looking at the first page of Viewpoints...is someone bumping up old threads again?

They all look like current threads to me, mistri. What do you see?

I keep clicking on "Viewpoints" and I see only old threads--and not this one--listed. What is going on?

Re: How Did This Happen???

dooBdoo — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:16:09 GMT

On 3/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
On 3/24/2014 dooBdoo said:
On 3/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
I was just looking at the first page of Viewpoints...is someone bumping up old threads again?

They all look like current threads to me, mistri. What do you see?

I keep clicking on "Viewpoints" and I see only old threads--and not this one--listed. What is going on?

At the top of the threads, you need to click on "Recent threads" instead of "Popular threads."

Edited to add: Where it says "Sort by:"

Re: How Did This Happen???

mistriTsquirrel — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:21:16 GMT

On 3/24/2014 dooBdoo said:
On 3/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
On 3/24/2014 dooBdoo said:
On 3/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
I was just looking at the first page of Viewpoints...is someone bumping up old threads again?

They all look like current threads to me, mistri. What do you see?

I keep clicking on "Viewpoints" and I see only old threads--and not this one--listed. What is going on?

At the top of the threads, you need to click on "Recent threads" instead of "Popular threads."

I can see the recent threads now...but I didn't click on "Recent threads," I just cleared my cookies.

That has never happened before. I usually only clear my cookies when the pages are taking too long to load. I've never had it happen before that I couldn't see the recent threads.

Re: How Did This Happen???

mistriTsquirrel — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:22:49 GMT

On 3/24/2014 dooBdoo said:
On 3/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
On 3/24/2014 dooBdoo said:
On 3/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
I was just looking at the first page of Viewpoints...is someone bumping up old threads again?

They all look like current threads to me, mistri. What do you see?

I keep clicking on "Viewpoints" and I see only old threads--and not this one--listed. What is going on?

At the top of the threads, you need to click on "Recent threads" instead of "Popular threads."

Edited to add: Where it says "Sort by:"

But I never clicked on "Popular Threads." I've always had it set to "Recent Threads," and that's what always shows up when I sign on.