Our Library's Tags Go to Someone Else's books/tags

Hi all,

A patron just let us know that our tags page, which we mostly have for educators looking for read aloud options on different subjects, leads to a different set of tags entirely (picture attached). When we try one of our commonly used tags (such as "Kindergarten"), it brings you to something very different. Has anyone experienced this bug? Is there a way for us to get our tags back?

Thank you!

>1 BC_ERC: FWIW, I don't get any issue when I check your catalogue. It shows your tags and clicking on one of them brings up that subset of books, eg for Kindergarten it opens https://www.librarything.com/catalog/BC_ERC?tag=Kindergarten

But I notice that the collections data in that pic also does not correspond to your library. It has more books, more collections, books added to Currently Reading, etc. So it seems they ended up on an entirely wrong member page, which is baffling since it shows your member name

ETA: I tried doing the same in a private window so that I'm not logged in and I got the exact same error as in the pic. Further sleuthing uncovered it actually shows this catalogue https://www.librarything.com/profile/starkimarki even though it says BC_ERC. Also, I opened your profile by clicking on you member name above and it should in no way end up on unrelated profile/catalogue

>1 BC_ERC: Please assume that we are morons and need this spelled out. Like: Which page are you on and please give us an example of a tag and what happens ("something very different" is not a very good bug report).

Trying to reproduce what's happening.
1. Go to https://www.librarything.com/catalog/BC_ERC
2. Click on Books in the "BC_ERC Profile Books Charts & Graphs Reviews Gallery" line near the top.
3. Select "Your library" as the collection and click on Tags.

The first column starts with 1920s (1) and the displayed tags doesn't look like your list and clicking on "Kindergarten" gives me

https://www.librarything.com/catalog/BC_ERC&tag=Kindergarten

which shows 1896 books, which looks normal to me.

I.e. I can't see the bug (I'm running Chrome on a Linux box).

>2 SandraArdnas: I think it bugs out only when not logged into LT

>4 SandraArdnas: I can cofirm that - when logged out your tags, and in fact anyone's tags, point to the starkimarki catalog

>4 SandraArdnas: >5 rodneyvc: Might this be one of LT's defenses against bots? It would work for that: No point in visiting when there is no data to gather. :-)

Verified. Looking into this.

Also verified that going to https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?tag=Kindergarten&view=BC_ERC when logged out takes you to mgallagher's "for sale" tag.

This should be fixed.

>6 waltzmn: LOL!

>10 bnielsen:

Glad somebody thought it was funny! :-)

>11 waltzmn: It reminded me of one of the first bot-attacks I discovered. It had followed a link from one of our professors homepage to our web-based calendar and since each page on that had a link to Tomorrow it just kept going. Seeing that in our logfile also made me laugh :-)

>12 bnielsen: Hm. This suggests a bot trap in which two pages reference each other and you put the bot into an infinite loop. If you're really lucky, it might even cache the pages and not even bother the source site any more.