Journal OldMiner's Journal: Distant Relations 1
I would love to properly submit this bug at the apporpriate SourceForge list, but I can't be bothered. Why? They require you to be a registered user to submit, and I'm not. I just wasted 10 minutes confirming this bug, and now they want me to spend another 10 to 20 validating an account just so I can submit a bug that likely won't be fixed unless I take 30 minutes to write and submit a patch as well? Blarg.
With those compalains out of the way, my issues is as follows: With my current comment preferences, a friend of a friend (the little green pill) gets (+1). This has mostly served me well. Oddly, though, someone found it fit to mark me as a friend. No less, I had already flagged this someone as a friend. Therefore, I'm a friend of a friend. Yes, I'm listed on that page. Why this is so I can't fathom. I can buy the claim that being a friend of oneself is a feature. After all, there are enough geek narcisists out there. But being a friend of friend via this method doesn't seem helpful. However, in itself, this isn't realy a bug.
What I do find to be buggy is that when I view my own comments, I get the +1 bonus for being a friend of a friend (!), but I don't get the green pill next to my name indicating that this is so. Testing this in both "Light" and normal modes resulted in this behavior. Setting my FoF modifier to 0 caused my comments to reduce to the appropriate level.
A small annoyance mostly. But I like finding bugs. And I like reporting them. (I rather fixing them, but I'm not exactly a perl master.) Heck, I generally like hearing myself talk. Way to encourage my bad habits, Slashdot. Darn you!
On a nearly completely tangential note, now I apparently have a fan who is also a foe. I'm wondering if he has a foe of a friend modifier. If so, I wager he's seeing this same queer behavior.
Bugs. (Score:1)
My bug [sourceforge.net] is a funny one. It was marked dupe, but I cannot see where sourceforge tells me which bug it is a dupe of. This is a bug in SF, IMO. Today I am feeling unmotivated, so I probably won't report it.