@ replies sending PM's to the wrong people?

Multiple times recently I've started to notice this happening:

Someone replying to someone else in a thread I commented in, but me recieving a PM saying I was being replied to. Using Chrome 21 on Win7 64bit. Anyone else seen this?

@Chavtheworld said:

Multiple times recently I've started to notice this happening:

Someone replying to someone else in a thread I commented in, but me recieving a PM saying I was being replied to. Using Chrome 21 on Win7 64bit. Anyone else seen this?

Yeah, I've gotten that before. Seems odd but hey...whatever.

Yes, the whole reply messages thing seems to be going a bit funky every now and then. A few days ago I got a reply message from a thread that I hadn't even commented in, and the message said I'd been quoted in the first post!

@Demoskinos: Yeah it's only bothering me cause it's happened like 3 times in the past couple of days.

I think they @replied you at some point in that message, but deleted it to do it for somebody else. As far as I can tell, the glitch is that while the text is deleted, the "hey, PM this guy" code isn't.

So what sometimes happens is a user wants to @reply a user within a quote but does not wish to locate the original comment. They'll often select the "quote" option and then delete everything that isn't the username they wish to direct their @reply towards. The side effect is that all users that are included in the original quote are still flagged as recipients for the comment and as such receive a PM for the new comment even if the comment is not intended for them.

@ZombiePie said:

So what sometimes happens is a user wants to @reply a user within a quote but does not wish to locate the original comment. They'll often select the "quote" option and then delete everything that isn't the username they wish to direct their @reply towards. The side effect is that all users that are included in the original quote are still flagged as recipients for the comment and as such receive a PM for the new comment even if the comment is not intended for them.

Oh

oops my bad. I think I just did that.

Well I'm a dick! I do this all of the time. Sorry everybody, I'm pretty sure there have been people in this very thread I did that too.

That just means that someone originally hit the reply or quote button and then deleted your name and/or message.

@ZombiePie said:

So what sometimes happens is a user wants to @reply a user within a quote but does not wish to locate the original comment. They'll often select the "quote" option and then delete everything that isn't the username they wish to direct their @reply towards. The side effect is that all users that are included in the original quote are still flagged as recipients for the comment and as such receive a PM for the new comment even if the comment is not intended for them.

I had a feeling it could have been this. Thanks for the explanation.