Question about Ignored Games

[L7Bear]

Not sure where to post this, but here it goes.

From time to time I ignore certain games, but sometimes I also notice certain games being ignored that I don't think should have been.
Today, for example, I saw "Becoming a Prom Queen" (HTML) was being ignored. That didn't make any sense, since I had played the game a year ago and rather enjoyed it.
Maybe it was user error, but maybe some wires got crossed on the back end?

Also, when I clicked to "unignore" the game, it asked, "Please confirm that you want to delete the following:" followed by the game's name and a big red DELETE button.
That kinda freaked me out. I didn't want to delete the game, I wanted to stop ignoring it.
Clicking DELETE unignored it, but that's a really weird way to phrase it.

 

[tanstaafl]

That kinda freaked me out. I didn't want to delete the game, I wanted to stop ignoring it.
Clicking DELETE unignored it, but that's a really weird way to phrase it.

Understandable. It's probably phrased that way because when you ignore a game the system probably flags that game in your profile or user config so you aren't supposed to see it. The Delete message was probably put there by a dev who was thinking of the flag deletion and not what the user would be thinking. Assumption on my part though.

 

[anne O'nymous]

[...] The Delete message was probably put there by a dev who was thinking of the flag deletion and not what the user would be thinking.

It's more surely because it use a generic deletionConfirmation code and template.


As for the issue itself, each thread is identified by it's own ID, and there's 99% chance that it's what it is used by the ignore thread feature. Those ID are also constant, they never changed and will never change, because else all links to a given thread would lead somewhere else.
Therefore I guess that it's the result of a misclick. OP wanted to ignore a thread, but without noticing it he ignored the one above or below it.

 

[tanstaafl]

It's more surely because it use a generic deletionConfirmation code and template.

Considered this as well, but since it isn't actually deleting anything, just hiding it from a user, more likely it's flagging or unflagging it for that user.