Prompt Meme Follow-Up

[kalloway]

As a belated follow-up to this post, about AO3's prompt meme tool, I am pleased to note two things:

1. As of last month, "[AO3-4634] - It used to be possible for all logged in users to access the "Unposted Claims" page of a prompt meme challenge. Now this list of all claims is restricted to the challenge mods."

and 2. The prompt meme has self-destructed. There were no claims and no works produced, but a lot of good conversation. Thanks for helping me tinker!

(OR NOT! "We couldn't delete that right now, sorry! Please try again later." If it won't self-destruct properly, I suppose it can just stay there if anyone wants to tinker further. There's a further comment about functionality in here that I'm just not going to make...)

Comments

[falkner]

I had something similar happen, and I believe you can't delete the prompt meme until all the prompts have been deleted. Not that that error message is any help in figuring it out.

[kalloway]

Thank you! That's surprisingly unintuitive.

[falkner]

The only reason I could figure it out was because I was able to delete the parent collection but the sub-collection remained and gave me that error. So after a bit of trial and error I discovered that after deleting all prompts and bookmarks so that the collection was completely empty, I could finally delete it.

[kalloway]

A-ha! I might just have to send in a support ticket asking them to adjust their error message, because yeah, I absolutely never would have figured that out on my own.