# Is there a glitch in the board? Or a spam attack? **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [October 25, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-glitch-in-the-board-or-a-spam-attack/1009216 "2024-10-25T18:55:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-glitch-in-the-board-or-a-spam-attack/1009216/1 "2024-10-25T18:55:45Z")
Twice today, I’ve clicked the link to pull up “Unread” posts. That should be giving me a list of threads with recent posts. Instead I’ve gotten a list of old threads I started. In some cases, these were six year old threads with no apparent recent activity. One possibility is that somebody posted a recent message - presumably spam - on a bunch of my old threads and the mods deleted the new message but the activity brought the old thread back to the top of the queue. Or maybe it’s a software glitch. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-glitch-in-the-board-or-a-spam-attack/1009216/2 "2024-10-25T19:08:06Z")
I tried it a few times and I can’t get it to misbehave. What browser/OS/theme are you using? If you can get it to misbehave again, pay attention to the URL that it sends you to. It should be [https://boards.straightdope.com/unread](https://boards.straightdope.com/unread) If it’s not, let us know what URL it actually sent you to. If you have questions about specific threads, let me know what threads and I can look to see if they have recently deleted posts in them. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-glitch-in-the-board-or-a-spam-attack/1009216/3 "2024-10-25T20:18:26Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > What browser/OS/theme are you using? Chrome/Windows 10/Vincent > [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > If you can get it to misbehave again, pay attention to the URL that it sends you to. It should be > [https://boards.straightdope.com/unread](https://boards.straightdope.com/unread) That’s the URL I’m going to. > [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > If you have questions about specific threads, let me know what threads and I can look to see if they have recently deleted posts in them. I just checked it. Here are the top responses: Military equipment in parks - I started it in September 30. The most recent post is October 23. (This one is valid.) Pizza question: which answer is right? - I started it in May 2017; most recent post is Jun 2017. I’m calling bullshit on wine story - I started it in Nov 2014; most recent post is May 2015. Complicity for the Holocaust in occupied countries - I started in Apr 2015; most recent post is Apr 2015. What appears to be happening is that somehow old threads I started are having some of the posts at the end of the threads marked as unread. (Even though I have read them.) Because these are “my” threads and the software considers I have unread responses in them, this is what it’s sending me to. It appears to be an ongoing issue. I can click the “unread” link and see a thread with supposedly unread responses. I open the thread. I then check back and the thread is marked as having no unread posts. But if I click the “unread” link again, some of these threads will once again show they have unread posts in them. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-glitch-in-the-board-or-a-spam-attack/1009216/4 "2024-10-25T21:35:52Z")
That looks like a software glitch of some sort. Let’s move this to Site Feedback (from ATMB) so that the Discourse developers will see it.