I was reviewing some edits today and went to reject one (which one is irrelevant). After clicking on the reject button I selected the custom option and typed in my reason. I then clicked the reject button on the pop-up window. I was then presented with a red pop-up that stated something like "You appear to be using javascript to avoid clicking a button", or something similarly absurd. The rejection failed. The only JavaScript involved was that supplied by the site itself.
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Was this a one off or is it ongoing ?– user9517 ModCommented Aug 25, 2012 at 22:55
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This is a one off for me but I seldom review edits and can't recall if I've rejected one before or not. Accepting edits worked fine.– John GardeniersCommented Aug 25, 2012 at 22:56
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My guess is someone wrote a user script that does something that they're wanting to avoid; that's the only thing I can make sense of the message. And something probably went wrong with its validation.– Mark Henderson ModCommented Aug 26, 2012 at 1:40
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@Mark, I suspect you're correct on both counts. Of course it's not possible to reliably determine whether a button was click was caused by a human or code and any attempt to do so is doomed to failure.– John GardeniersCommented Aug 26, 2012 at 2:18
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It's popping up all over meta.stackexchange.com/questions/144944/…– user9517 ModCommented Aug 26, 2012 at 7:43
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Ok, it's not just me then. Let's leave it to the devs to sort out.– John GardeniersCommented Aug 26, 2012 at 11:29
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It looks like this problem has been resolved.
This is fixed now. Sorry about that.
As part of a refactoring related to the new review UI, we started storing "rejection reason ids" with bytes instead of ints, and I failed to notice that we were representing "custom reason" with -1 on the client side (and bytes can't be negative).
answered Aug 27, 2012 at 18:09
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While that explains why the rejection didn't work it doesn't even begin to explain the error message, so they must have screwed something else up as well. Commented Aug 28, 2012 at 8:03