in reply to Please unconsider

"Race conditions" like this happen quite often, I wouldn't worry about it.

Those who notice and read considerations are regulars. They can handle conflicting signals. :)

And if it's really worrisome, I'd say just send a message to janitors ...

> I can't remove the consideration myself, right?

Right, but janitors can.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^2: Please unconsider
by hv (Prior) on Sep 19, 2022 at 12:44 UTC

    Ah thanks, I had both missed the brief paragraph on this in the help page and failed to understand that janitors were a messageable entity.

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      I just tested with the help of Athanasius++, if the original author is messaged if his node is considered. Apparently not.

      I've seen many edit-considerations including the text "author messaged", maybe it could be an idea to automatically message any non-anonymous author, if the consideration includes the word /^\s*edit/i at the beginning.

      (yes relying on text recognition is fuzzy, but otherwise we'd need to extend the form, and that's a practical and fast solution. see also Re: Please unconsider )

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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        I think the point is to message the author before the consideration process, and only resort to janitation if the author fails.

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