Preventing [unintentional] Double Posts

[UltraSonix]

OK, please don't scream at me too hard if this isn't technically feasable (or will slow down the site too much):

When you post, can't the site check if the previous post was also made by you, and if so, check to see if the previous post is the exactly the same as the one you just posted.

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[Midshipman]

Or, why doesnt the flood control stop it?

[ColdWizard]

double posting isn't a problem if you're patient enough to wait and not hit the submit button again.

[Dissident Aggressor]

I think I only double posted once when flood control was started. I think I just kept hitting submit even after the time limit because of typical apolyton slow down. I can't see this as a problem. But impatient people like me just got to get their posts in

[Builder]

and why do we need 2 threads about this...

[Narck]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Midshipman on 10-20-2000 02:40 AM</font>
Or, why doesnt the flood control stop it?
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>Occasionally, the script runs really slow, so you're waiting for 30 seconds or so, and it seems as if your post is not being submitted (it is, of course - but many ppl don't know that). So what they do is they submit it again... and again... and again... thus creating double posts... Since the time in between is sometimes several minutes, there's not much the flood control can do about that.

[Narck]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Builder on 10-20-2000 08:58 AM</font>
and why do we need 2 threads about this...
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>Yours is a complaint about the time between posts set by the flood control and this one is a suggestion to stop unintentional double posts

[Shadowstrike]

I sugfgested this a month or two ago. Back then, nobody cared about my idea. C'mon, it's a good idea! It can also cut down spam. Do it Mark and Dan!

[UltraSonix]

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</font>I sugfgested this a month or two ago. Back then, nobody cared about my idea. C'mon, it's a good idea! It can also cut down spam. Do it Mark and Dan!
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I think after Thue's (perhaps record setting) five-post, they might think about it...

The only problem I can see with it though, is that it might slow down the site too much.

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[ColdWizard]

just hit the submit botton once is all. if the script is slow just go play a nice relaxing game of freecell

[Builder]

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</font>I think after Thue's (perhaps record setting) five-post, they might think about it...
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someone made more when there was a server slowdown 4(?) days ago.

I think it was 6, but it could be 5.

[UltraSonix]

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Have you ever had the problem where sometimes in Windoze, you click something and sort of move the mouse off the thing in the process - so that the thing doesn't actually get pressed? Or sometimes you click the "submit" button right at the edge?

Anyway, the end result is that at the bottom of the screen it doesn't say that the posting.cgi (or whatever) page is being loaded - which it sometimes does even when the post is actually being posted. So I can't tell whether the post has been made or not...

edit: tell me if this post doesn't make sense.

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<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by UltraSonix (edited October 20, 2000).]</font>

[Legman]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by UltraSonix on 10-20-2000 07:49 PM</font>
Have you ever had the problem where sometimes in Windoze, you click something and sort of move the mouse off the thing in the process - so that the thing doesn't actually get pressed? Or sometimes you click the "submit" button right at the edge?

Anyway, the end result is that at the bottom of the screen it doesn't say that the posting.cgi (or whatever) page is being loaded - which it sometimes does even when the post is actually being posted. So I can't tell whether the post has been made or not...

edit: tell me if this post doesn't make sense.


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If you're on Windows, I believe an hourglass should appear next to your cursor (even briefly) if you've activated the submit feature, whereas if you missed the submit button you wouldn't see an hourglass.

Strangely enough, I don't think a double post has happened to me more than once in the close to two years I've been posting here. So it's a bit of a mystery why some people seem to have such a hard time avoiding them.

I think ColdWizard's advice of only hitting the submit button once is the best advice for this problem anyone could come up with.

[ColdWizard]

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</font>Have you ever had the problem where sometimes in Windoze, you click something and sort of move the mouse off the thing in the process - so that the thing doesn't actually get pressed? Or sometimes you click the "submit" button right at the edge?
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of course, but in those instances the little blue progress bar doesn't show up and the stupid M$ icon in the corner doesn't rotate (btw i use IE 5)

[cavebear]

It is easy to check in Netscape (and I assume Internet Explorer, too, but I don't use that).

Go to File and select "new". Open a second Navigator Window and use that to go to the same forum. Your post will show up there if successfully sent. If not, go back to the first window and resend. I used to have double posts until I started doing this.