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Odd items in my history

solitude 🚫

(following on from another thread) I've been looking at the 'more info' ofsome of the older items in my history, and some seem completely unfamiliar: authors I do not recognise, stories with descriptions and tags that trigger squicks. Is it possible that such stories are a case of ID reuse: the story I actually read has been deleted, the id assigned to a story added shortly after - so the reference in my history is a lie? If so, is there any way of getting all such mismatches removed from people's histories, please? Also, is a vote I gave to the old story mow assigned to the new one? If so, I think that also needs correcting!

(Primary key reuse is liable to cause a whole slew of problems, unless every cross reference between tables is properly marked as a foreign key - and the dbms enforces referential integrity. Cascaded deletes can help with maintenance, if supported by the dbms.)

Replies:   Pixy  madnige
Pixy 🚫

@solitude

Could it be that you have read those stories in response to discussions about them on the forums, rather than through personal desire?

Replies:   solitude
solitude 🚫

@Pixy

Could it be that you have read those stories in response to discussions about them on the forums, rather than through personal desire?

Possibly. But I don't vote on a story that I accidentally visit - and the unrecognised stories have a vote recorded.

(It would be nice if story links in the forums were automatically adjusted to point at the 'more info' page, so we can look at the description, score, tags etc without the story immediately appearing in our histories (or counting against our daily quotas. But only if the link doesn't point to the wrong place if the story is deleted!)

madnige 🚫

@solitude

looking at the 'more info'

The [More Info] link is only keyed on the (re-useable) story-id, so if you feed it a deleted story's ID it's quite possible you'll get back info on a more recently posted story. The database key also uses the 'shortform' story title (like appears in the URL), but I can't remember if LJ said anything else was used as well - possibly a timestamp to differentiate revisions.

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