Why did we try to flag a post twice as the same user?

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Why did we try to flag a post twice as the same user? #180

Closed Undo1 closed 7 years ago

Undo1 commented 7 years ago

See https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/69717/flag_logs - somehow we tried to flag a post with the same user twice.

double-fault commented 7 years ago

Same thing also happened in these posts with the same user (CalvT): first, second and third.

There may be more occurrences if we dig deep enough.

j-f1 commented 7 years ago

When looking at the Eligible Users section, I see this:

Core

CalvT

Everyone else

This seems to be happening because there is only 1 core user applicable, so they get used for both core and either-core-or-non-core.

CalvT commented 7 years ago

The errors do seem to be ramping up a bit in the past few days.

April 28, 1 error link
May 9, 1 error link
May 18, 1 error link
May 21, 2 errors link and link
May 23, 1 error link
May 24, 4 errors link, link, link and link
May 25, 1 error (so far) link

It seems that at no time did MS try and cast three flags in my name on the same post.

I do have a low flagging weight, 164 at this moment. And also an account on all 167 sites.

It's possible I'm the only core member that has such a low weight on so many sites.

angussidney commented 7 years ago

Note that CalvT previously had a flagging weight of 163, which is no longer possible to set since it's accuracy is too low. This would possibly explain why he was the only elegible flagger.

On a side note, MS only checks flagging conditions for their accuracy when the flagging condition or system settings are updated. While we could set up a cron job to disable conditions that become too inaccurate after being set up, I don't think it's worth it when they are still 99.49% accurate (threshold = 99.5%)

CalvT commented 7 years ago

Just to be clear, on the 2 of May, 163 gave me 99.51% accuracy. I'm not sure when it dropped to 99.49%, but think it was sometime last week.

Out of the 11 links above, 4 had a weight of 163, 6 had a weight of 167, and 1 had a weight 196

CalvT commented 7 years ago

Has happened twice again, here(165) and here(170). In the second link it first cast a flag for both me and M.A.R., then tried to cast a second one for both of us.

ArtOfCode- commented 7 years ago

This'll need server logs to figure out.