Mystery: some of my notifications/alerts sometimes disappear + ....

[Stavros Kiri]

Mystery: some of my notifications/alerts (≥2) disappeared today (possibly likes, at least 2 the last 30-60min ...). I' ve seen it before!
Any idea? System malfunction? Or something.

[Also, (I don't know if relevant) about ~18-25 days ago, around Jan 14-22, I noticed/saw:
1. One case of a like to someone else, on my behalf, appearing (in 'recent activity' and on that post, while I was working elsewhere ! ...), without me actually doing it!
2. Some mentors' notifications about some of my merged or deleted posts did not even appear or ever existed (?) ! ... ]

Anyone can draw a conclussion?
[Perhaps relevant recent situation in other similar reports, e.g. on threads of this forum, etc. ... (?)] (e.g. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/if-something-happens-it-wasnt-me.902722/)

P.S. Suspicion: Someone sabotaging me? I hope not. I didn't harm anyone! I'm just here for the science ...
But I don't know ... (just a long shot, I hope not true - I don't like having "enemies" ...).

Other ideas: hacking? ...

 

[mfb]

It is possible to revert likes, the alert will disappear then.

Apart from that, it is hard to speculate what could have happened.

 

[Stavros Kiri]

It is possible to revert likes, the alert will disappear then.

Apart from that, it is hard to speculate what could have happened.

That's one possible case, I have seen it as well, but somehow I could distinguish, I think the red alert on my screen disappears too on the refreshed page, in that case. But today there was a clear red >= 2 times, with no e-mail (thus no new post, thus perhaps 'likes' or other notif. ...), which persisted after refreshing the page (while I was busy), but when I went right after to find it there was nothing there ... [Unless both times weird coincidence and timing of ~simultaneous actions ... (reverting likes e.g. one of them), or possibly system lapse [time] and delay (?) ... ]

+ I edited the previous post - see ...

 

[Stavros Kiri]

which persisted after refreshing the page (while I was busy), but when I went right after to find it there was nothing there ...

On 2nd, more careful, consideration and memory recalling, I am not completely sure that I did in fact refresh the page as said, for at least one of the cases. So

It is possible to revert likes, the alert will disappear then.

can with certain probability be the case.

The other parts noticed ... I don't know what they can be. Oh well ...

 

[Ibix]

I can give a specific example. I posted this:
Different methods of deriving the energy-momentum equation

A bit later I saw an alert for a reply from @PeterDonis but got a "you do not have permission to do this" message when I followed it, and the alert vanished from my alerts page when I refreshed. I guess Peter deleted something he posted by accident or something. But he replied again - and now I have no alert from either his deleted post or the response he did leave up. I only found it because I went in through the forum list.

 

[Stavros Kiri]

But he replied again - and now I have no alert from either his deleted post or the response he did leave up.

What about the e-mail notification (for posts) in this case? Once sent out, they are there unaffected ...

 

[Ibix]

What about the e-mail notification (for posts) in this case? Once sent out, they are there unaffected ...

I have email notifications turned off, so I don't know.

 

[Stavros Kiri]

I have email notifications turned off, so I don't know.

Ok. That would have solved your mystery though. Anyway, I think all these things happen. As long as we are not hacked or something ...