The review queue shows a confusing error when trying to delete a user that was already deleted

[schleifer (Andrew Schleifer)]

If a spammer is deleted by somebody else while you are looking at the review queue, you cannot tell. Trying to delete them subsequently gives a confusing error message, and the user is still apparently in the queue.

The sequence was approximately:

1. spammers gonna spam
2. spammer is flagged and put in the queue
3. I opened the queue page
4. somebody else deleted the spammer
5. I hit the button to delete the spammer
6. the error message is displayed
7. but the spammer still appears on the page
8. open a bug on Meta

This bug – Error on Delete User in pending-approvals list – seems similar.

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Just ran into this myself. A better error message would be nice.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@vinothkannans can you improve the error message here?

[vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan)]

The error message is now improved in the PR

UX: return correct error message if reviewable user is deleted already.