This Is Weird,...

I just looked at this profile:

www.listal.com/cannons

And the same two "members" have rated them multiple times? Is it because they changed the rating, or something along the lines of how disallowed pics are still being used for profiles?

That is strange, normally if you change your rating it simply alters your existing rating to the new number. I noticed one of these members has two ratings on a movie as well!

One for the Mods to look at I guess.

This is also REALLY weird:

www.listal.com/anya-tikhomirova

She has 99 pictures in her profile, but if you try to see them in thumbnail view, none exist. If you click on the individual pics from her timeline, they do exist, but all appear to be posted by a non-existent member (not the usual "deleted"). This isn't an older profile, either. In fact, people have been voting for her pics within the past week. Any ideas?

Can only assume who ever posted the images has recently deleted them from their profile, but for whatever reason it has not deleted images that have been voted on.

That is REALLY strange!

@pdw55 and offs: all of her pics appear to have been posted 3 years ago, but I can't find anyone in her timeline that posted them.

I did the same check and you will also note where it says who created the profile it is blank, which suggests they removed their images and deleted their account (assuming the later is possible). Still does not explain being able to access the images though.

Yeah, weird? Loucamel was voting for some as of last week.

I can't say for certain, but...

I think there’s a pretty simple explanation for what you’re seeing — or at least as simple as anything on Listal ever gets. A lot of this looks like the usual side‑effects of the site’s prehistoric backend doing whatever it feels like on any given day. When old accounts, old uploads, and old database entries collide, Listal tends to produce these little digital ghost towns.

One likely scenario is that the images were originally uploaded by an account that was deleted years ago. When Listal removes a user, it doesn’t actually remove their content; it just erases the account and leaves the images behind like forgotten boxes in an attic nobody’s cleaned since 2010. Because the uploader record is now blank, the system can’t generate thumbnails or attach the images to a visible profile, so they end up in this half‑alive, half‑deleted state. They still exist, they can still be voted on, but the site itself has no idea what to do with them. Very on‑brand.

The duplicate‑looking ratings are probably another symptom of the same aging machinery. Listal is supposed to update a rating rather than create a new one, but sometimes the interface glitches and shows the same user twice. It’s not that someone rated the same thing multiple times — it’s just the UI having a small existential crisis. Again, nothing unusual for a platform that’s been running on the same codebase since the Jurassic period.

And the fact that people can still vote on these ghost images isn’t actually surprising. The images are still in the database, so anyone who stumbles across the direct link can interact with them, even if the site itself has forgotten they exist. It’s basically Listal’s version of a secret basement room: you’re not supposed to find it, it’s full of weird leftovers, and the lights only work when they feel like it.

So while it looks mysterious, it’s probably just the usual cocktail of half‑deleted accounts, orphaned images, and a database that’s been held together by duct tape, nostalgia, and sheer stubbornness for far too long.