# Freakiness

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakiness/484120>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 2, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakiness/484120 "2009-02-02T14:29:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakiness/484120/1 "2009-02-02T14:29:21Z")

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The PM notification popup won’t turn off – I can’t delete the message triggering it – and the long post I just wrote explaining it all didn’t get posted.

I logged out and logged back in – popup still happening – let’s see if this post “takes.”

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakiness/484120/2 "2009-02-02T15:33:42Z")

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Is this still going on? Is anyone else having this problem?

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakiness/484120/3 "2009-02-02T15:35:38Z")

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I do note that it is Groundhog Day. 🙂

(Seriously, no one should be having problems.)

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakiness/484120/4 "2009-02-02T17:01:07Z")

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Sorry, I forgot to come back to this thread – this was happening during the weirdness of 8-9 AM EST, referred to in my “PM notification pissing me off” OP that you (correctly) locked.

I will mention, however, that the PM written at 11:04 that I just read isn’t marked as read, and the notification counter in the upper RH corner still says 1, though I’ve read (and responded to) it.

At least I seem to have successfully turned off the popup, so I’m not going to let this get my panties in a twist.