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Top 10 Excuses for Not Sphinning a Good Article
Sphinn Zone News Source: http://www.convertoffline.com
Story Found By: LocalHound 1641 Days ago
Category: Sphinn Zone
Ever wonder why some good articles don’t receive many sphinns... well wonder no longer... here they are.
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from qwerty 1641 Days ago #
Votes: 1

I sphunn it, even though I have an excuse not to ever sphinn again: it seems I have to click the "Sphinn It!" link two or three times and then refresh the page in order to see that my sphinn’s been sphunn.

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from steaprok 1641 Days ago #
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If I may add 2 more.. #11 You broke your clicking finger burying people on Digg #12 Your not part of the secret underground club of sphinners who toss relevancy out the window for the sake of their 10 clicks of fame.

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from Michelle 1641 Days ago #
Votes: 0

@qwerty - what browser (and version) are you using?

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from qwerty 1641 Days ago #
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FF 2.0.0.6

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from bhancock 1641 Days ago #
Votes: 0

I had to click the Sphinn button twice as well... Same FF version as qwerty.

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from bwelford 1641 Days ago #
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I’ve got the same version and I Sphunn it with just one click. :)

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from MattC 1641 Days ago #
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#13, it the article uses an unavailable_after tag :D

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from AndyBeard 1641 Days ago #
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#14 You tried to Sphinn it with Sphinn This, and you ended up at a search result page providing 35 day old stories #15 you then tried to Sphinn it with a button provided by XYZ plugin, and you ended up at a search result page providing 35 day old stories Commenting on this here in the "Water Cooler" - it has been reported by a number of people and I really hope it will be fixed soon.

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from rdash 1641 Days ago #
Votes: 0

I have mostly the same problem as qwerty. I’m using FF 1.5x. The Sphinn count does not upgrade immediately at times. I’ll also found over the last several days that Sphinn pages sometimes would not complete. They took a very long time to render in completion. I thought it might be a Wi-Fi problem, but I had not trouble at other sites.

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from LocalHound 1640 Days ago #
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The comments are great. I am very jealous that I didn’t think about the unavailable_after tag, that really made me laugh. Sea Monkey and the sphinn button won’t work at all for me but I have no trouble when I click the ’sphinn it’ text underneath.

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from Michelle 1640 Days ago #
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Clicking the "Sphinn It" text is the only way to sphinn an article. The button itself is merely a link to the article. Seems I’ll have to disable that since it continues to be an issue for a few users. The auto-update has been corrected (no need to refresh the page to see the vote count increased and the text changed to ’Sphunn’) so I’m surprised to hear people are still having a problem. Though from the comments, it’s hard to discern if people are trying to vote via the button, and with that failing, reporting it as an error. @AndyBeard - re: #14 - do you have more specific info on this issue - are you reporting that you’ve clicked on the "Sphinn It" text here at Sphinn and are taken to a search results page - or is this some behavior you’ve only seen with off-site Sphinn buttons? Thanks!

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from Sebastian 1640 Days ago #
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Michelle, I’ve the same problem with FF 1.5x. Sometimes the first click *on the anchor text* records the vote and changes the number, sometimes it needs 2, 3, or even more clicks. As for the slow rendering, I’ve noticed that too. That could be caused by the Ask ad loaded from another server. That’s somewhat annoying when I click on a link from the comments page, because the page flips up and down until FF positions at the comment’s DOM ID. Perhaps you can remove the #fragment leading to the comment in the link to the story, leaving it in the "jump to comment" link. Thanks Sebastian

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from Sebastian 1640 Days ago #
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And of course I got the "Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /var/www/html/sp/sphinn.com/templates_c/c_ef20b2b5fff08f636a080a9108ff9329.php on" error on submit of the comment.

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from AndyBeard 1640 Days ago #
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Michelle there are 3 mentions of this in the bugs thread Any voting method other than the Sphinn javascript button is broken, because if a story is already submitted, you are taken to a page that say it is already submitted, where the only link is to a search which brings up 35 day old stories. Here is the page you are taken to using any of the alternative forms of sphinning for this article. http://sphinn.com/submit?url=http://www.convertoffline.com/top-10-excuses-for-not-sphinning-a-good-article/ The search page you click through to is broken, and surely not necessary if you have already detected that the article is submitted. A search should only be for new submissions that are similar to already submitted stories.

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from jpoyer 1640 Days ago #
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Heh heh. Nice list. Enjoyed it!

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