Well, I couldn’t just go to sleep with a blaring error on the site. I went through the category (ZINES/PUNK) and went through and found the offending link. It was, as luck would have it, a dead link anyway. I deleted said link and now that category is working as expected. I believe I have an existing data validation that will trap any error like that with the new software I put in place (back in May) but this link was from 2001, and goes back to a time when there was little or no real data validation and meant that it was actually “broken” data. It happens when trying to use old data in a new system. When time permits I will still be looking at preventing this in the future but now that I know exactly what it is, its a low priority item (unless it crops up in other places, but our editor just spent the last several days going through every category and every link and has only found this to be occuring once).
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This entry was posted by blinder on Sunday, August 13th, 2006, at 12:36 am, and was filed in site news.
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