CUNY Academic Commons

Added http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/2564 as a related issue

Adding Ray as a watcher. Ray, do you have any ideas about how to troubleshoot this, or any ideas about why this might be causing problems? Could it have something to do with the way that bp-groupblog changes the activity parameters of a groupblog activity item (groupblog_new_post, setting the component to 'groups', changing the item_id to the group id), so that the activity lookup in RBE fails?

I can only think of one scenario of how this could occur.

If the activity entry is deleted for the corresponding blog post in the BuddyPress group, but the blog post still exists. Then if someone edits the same blog post, a new activity entry is created in the BuddyPress group, hence creating a new activity entry and a new group email is sent via the Group Email Subscription plugin.

So let's say I created a new Noam Chomsky post on the groupblog, it created a corresponding activity entry in the Philosophy Commons group. For whatever reason, I did not like this activity entry in the Philosophy group, so I delete it. A few days later, I need to edit the Chomsky post and update the post. This will create a new activity entry into the Philosophy group and those subscribed to "All Mail" in the group will receive an email about this.

Does this sound like what happened?

Marilynn, have you, at any point in time, manually deleted activity items from the group activity feed?

Hi Matt,

I think we may have figured it out! Yes, I have done sometimes deleted posts on the group page because I thought that maybe more people would post if it looked like a higher percentage of people who weren't me were posting. If you think this is the cause, I will not do it anymore. Should I just adopt this no-delete policy for now and let you know if this pops up still?

Thanks!
Marilynn

I emailed Iakovos. Thanks all for your help in solving this mystery.