Robby W Posted January 12, 2016 Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 As a nooby to this site, apparently there are some rules or functions I don't know about. Sometimes when I click the Like This button, I get an error message saying I can't give reputation to that person? At first, I thought it was because I started the topic, but it seems to be random. Is there something I need to learn? Thanks in advance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat60 Posted January 12, 2016 Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 Well give me one and we will see if it's fixed..I think the only time you can't like someone's post is when they put you on their list..You're too new for that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted January 12, 2016 Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 I've never seen that happen although I'm usually throwing shade, not giving reputation * ) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robby W Posted January 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 Mat60 - I tried it on your More post and on your reply below, same warning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted January 12, 2016 Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 Would need Marc to chime in to be sure but, it might be because of your post count? I'm not having any issues. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephThomas Posted January 12, 2016 Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 Robby I have had this issue before...I thought at the time it happened if I clicked the like button 2x before it had a chance to complete the first action. Edit: seems easily reproducible for me, just have to click it twice before it changes to the 'unlike' button. As a fellow software engineer I must say, nothing exposes all the flaws in your code like a user base that actually uses the product The poor guys that made the forum probably have a special love/hate thing going for us... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted January 12, 2016 Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 That could be a fun problem to track down if they aren't logging errors. Could it be browser specific? I'm on chrome, never had that occur. I had same problem in my code at work yesterday. It was a "oh wow I'm stupid" fix. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robby W Posted January 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 If it makes any difference, I am using IE 11 on Windows 8.1 and a Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet. Patches are up to date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robby W Posted January 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 I just got to work and looked this topic up. Although I have the same browser, the O/S is Windows 7, again with the latest patches. I noticed that mat60's Like I clicked this morning shows a Like, even though I got an error. Clicking Like on Cliff's post worked without problem. Weird! Dang, this is making me feel like a Valley Girl. I think I'll go shopping or hang out at the mall or like, something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted January 12, 2016 Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 That just means it's not getting a response from the server or it's mishandling it. My guess is clicking the "like" button generates an ajax request to a webservice then returns a json result that is parsed with confirmation. Since at that point it's handled by code on your machine to update that button to "liked" there are a number of things that can be going wrong. It can be solved by anything as simple as clearing cache, disabling addons, or since you are dealing with IE - reinstalling the OS. I find the latter to be very unlikely. But I bet you are throwing a javascript error and can't see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephThomas Posted January 12, 2016 Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 5 hours ago, Cliff said: ...Since at that point it's handled by code on your machine to update that button to "liked" there are a number of things that can be going wrong. It can be solved by anything as simple as clearing cache, disabling addons, or since you are dealing with IE - reinstalling the OS. I find the latter to be very unlikely. But I bet you are throwing a javascript error and can't see it. It has nothing to do with his browser or OS, none of that will help. If you check out the network activity in the dev tool, the page is sending multiple AJAX calls and only the first one returns a 200, all others return a 403. If the developers fix the javascript so it changes the button at the beginning of the event handler rather than after it will take care of the issue by not allowing multiple AJAX calls to be made. Robby, if you are careful not to click the button twice, you won't see the problem anymore. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted January 13, 2016 Report Share Posted January 13, 2016 2 hours ago, JosephThomas said: It has nothing to do with his browser or OS, none of that will help. If you check out the network activity in the dev tool, the page is sending multiple AJAX calls and only the first one returns a 200, all others return a 403. If the developers fix the javascript so it changes the button at the beginning of the event handler rather than after it will take care of the issue by not allowing multiple AJAX calls to be made. Robby, if you are careful not to click the button twice, you won't see the problem anymore. Bah. Who has time to check network activity? I was on this site to do things that don't require debugging. I was taking a moment to myself in the middle of writing my own self-exploding JS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Immortan D Posted January 13, 2016 Report Share Posted January 13, 2016 23 minutes ago, Cliff said: Bah. Who has time to check network activity? I was on this site to do things that don't require debugging. I was taking a moment to myself in the middle of writing my own self-exploding JS. I wouldn't call that debugging, at least with Firebug, it's so easy that even I can do it LOL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted January 13, 2016 Report Share Posted January 13, 2016 1 hour ago, Immortan D said: I wouldn't call that debugging, at least with Firebug, it's so easy that even I can do it LOL Sure it is. Especially compared to idle speculation. I did zero research, and barely thought. As far from debugging as one can get. I mean, not that I have Firebug at work. Welcome to the military, they are so secure they cut me off from Oracle with a new policy. Was out of commission for two days. That was after they cut my access off to the building, and to active directory. But that's another story. A boring one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 13, 2016 Report Share Posted January 13, 2016 ipsum lipsum loopsim essum. y'all are speaking geek again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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