Post Title Changes Spontaneously?

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  raincoaster · Member · May 5, 2008 at 6:40 pm

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  Has anyone seen this happen to their posts? I posted something yesterday and looked at it today and it had some random letters added to the front of the title. Very annoying, since it totally f*cks up my placement in searches for a very popular term. Me not happy.

  Original post title: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Trailer
  New title: ionIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Trailer
  link: http://raincoaster.com/2008/05/05/indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull-trailer/

  As you can see from the link, the title was correct originally. I don’t recall editing the title whatsoever, so where those letters came from is anyone’s guess.

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  rosclarke · Member · May 5, 2008 at 6:40 pm

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  It’s the gremlins…

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  raincoaster · Member · May 5, 2008 at 6:42 pm

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  The gremlins are interfering with my googlejuice. Pity the gremlins.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 5, 2008 at 6:52 pm

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  Okay, now this is seriously weird. Indy’s posts are haunted!

  I just added the Indiana Jones category yesterday as far as I can remember…and yet there it is on an old Indy post of mine.
  http://raincoaster.com/2007/06/26/quiz-which-indiana-jones-character-are-you/

  Is my memory totally shot, or are these applying automatically and retroactively? I could swear I searched the list for an Indy category and didn’t find one. If these are being added retroactively, I sure hope that “12 max. cat/tag” rule is not being applied.

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  ellaella · Member · May 5, 2008 at 6:59 pm

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  I don’t see extra letters at the start of that first title.

  What has happened to me since the upgrade is that draft titles of posts will show up in my blog stats. Titles that were never published, just saved at some point. Sometimes only the number of the post shows up.

  Very weird.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 5, 2008 at 7:13 pm

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  No, I just went in and edited them out. I couldn’t live with that mess any longer.

  I haven’t seen that draft post issue. That’s very, very strange.

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  ellaella · Member · May 5, 2008 at 7:21 pm

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  Totally. It comes and goes. Support’s aware of it but it doesn’t happen every day or with any pattern I can discern. Just another gremlin, but not one that’s hurting me.

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  archaeologyknits · Member · May 23, 2008 at 1:56 pm

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  As weird as this sounds, I wrote a post months ago about Indiana Jones, and came back today top find every “Indiana” reading “Indian. I don’t think I messed it up that many times, especially without anyone noticing, but I guess it could happen.
  http://archaeoporn.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/new-indian-jones-movie-to-offer-accurate-archaeology/