"Is There An Official Name For The Thread-Merging Bug?" Topic

If not I suggest:

* Transporter Malfunction Bug (TMB)
* Accidental Teleporter Fusion (ATF)
* Brundle-Fly "Bug" (BFB)

Any OTHER suggestions for the topic-merging problem we have been experiencing so much these last few months? Or has it been longer? I didn't get hit until a couple of months ago.

We might as well name it. Simply calling it "the bug" doesn't really paint an exact picture of what this specific one is doing:

The topic title looks like one thing when it's on the main page, and like another title altogether when looked at on on one of the boards. And when you click on the topic it looks like two people's OPs got fused, and even blends together their cross-posting selections.

Dan
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Yes, there is a name…but it's filtered out…

I was thinking of suggesting the "Pig Lizard Bug" (PLB) as a potential name, but the Galaxy Quest pig lizard wasn't combined with anything else when it was transported.

It simply arrived inside out … and then it exploded.

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That hasn't happened with our threads … yet.

Dan

I suggest 'Bob'.

OldGrenadier: "I suggest 'Bob'."

Lol. I don't think that "Bill is working on Bob" sounds right. But, what the heck, were just throwing out suggestions, right?

Dan

'Zardoz'.

Bricole

That which will not be Named!

I believe it is known as "Buggy McBugface".

All else is fake news.

Rico's Bane.

Buggy McBugFace would be my choice also…

The "Weaver."

This next little bug should be a lot easier to name:

TMP link

I suggest the Stutter Bug or the Echo Bug for that minor one.

Dan

Naming Bugs is like feeding stray cats.

You'll get attached to them, and then you'll be sad when they're gone.

Malta class carriers were built on incomplete King George V class battleship hulls

This is not so. The three Malta class carriers were built on the hulls of the incomplete N3 class battlecruisers.

Is that a new bug VSB ?

I think "Thread Merging Bug" is actually quite a good name – TMB.

'The Merge-roach!'…or 'the Dread Beast of Tharg!'

The naming of bugs is a difficult matter
It isn't just one of your holiday games
You may at think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you a bug must have three different names

But if we're voting its Buggy McBugface

Sounds like a poll suggesting and if we're voting its Buggy McBugface.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
bunkermeister.blogspot.com

Well, seeing as how I have no clue what you guys are saying, I guess I'm gonna have to look up what the whole "Buggy McBugface" thing is about.

Dan

It's a union, a joining together as one of different threads with ostensibly different agendas, now united literally 'on the same page' in a spirit of electronic harmony, so obviously it can only be…

The Love Bug!

I suggest totally merged posts, a.k.a. TMP. (cue dramatic music)

This other bug sounds like it limits your access to only the very latest discussions:

TMP link

So, perhaps that some should be called the Short-Term Memory (STM) Bug? Or the 50-First Dates (50FD) Bug?

Dan
PS. By the way, what happened to VSB's post above (this morning?) looks like could be called something like a Temporary Personality Transfer (TPT) Bug. :)

RECAP
So currently we have the following issues on TMP, that we keep referring to collectively as just "the bug" despite their different effects:

* The thread-merging bug (the main one discussed here);
* The echo or stutter bug;
* The temporary personality transfer bug (what happened to VSB above a few hours ago, an old bug I though had been eradicated); and
* The short term memory bug (the one linked in the post immediately above this one)

Any others?

Dan

WTF? Web Time Fail?