What just happened? or is still happening?
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November 16th, 2021
In the community feed I’m suddenly seeing a bunch of old names (and a few still around, such as @chyna) receiving awards (e.g., Jules Verne) and GAs and GQs. That includes @augustlan and others who are gone. What just happened somewhere in the Flutherverse?
Is someone GAing a batch of old questions and answers?
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I see you received the Jules Verne award 4 times in the last 10 minutes.
It’s hard to know if these were independent, or a hiccup.
You could check your own lurve to see if these were for different answers
Maybe it’s something like this?
And any day I see Augie getting a mention on this site is a good day
Me too. I still miss Auggie so much and am really glad her page is still up (although I wish it had been left with her original white-on-blue sans serif A).
I did check the first 5 or 6 of my new lurve messages, and they are all for answers that are at least ten years old. Maybe something from a prior geological stratum has just come unstuck.
Jeruba broke the internet!!!
(Or someone just started looking at old questions?)
@janbb, looking at old questions, ok, but looking at a rapid series of questions in which the same person had exactly 19 GAs, and GAing them only 3 or 4 seconds apart? Seems like there has to be another explanation.
@Jeruba You’re right. It is very odd.
Yes. Someone has gone back and ga’d my questions that had 19 ga’s to make it 20 ga’s.
Odd.
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The lurve fairies are active.
It seems most likely that these awards, which break randomly, have (temporarily?) ceased to be broken in an equally random manner.
Turns out it’s not a bug or a sudden release of old awards. I just thought I saw a mystery where there really wasn’t one. The guess in my Q details was correct: someone was having fun with old Qs.
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