strangeness with a double post

Raccoon · 01-09-2009

11 AM GMT I posted this :

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Originally Posted by Raccoon

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Nothing happened on the first click to save post, but on reclicking I got a message saying I had double-posted within a (5 second?) time frame and I was being redirected to my original post; all well and good... On the forums - sure enough my double posts were both shown as saved; I deleted one of them, and both vanished!

It appears something had gone screwy with the second save; it showed as saved but was, in fact, not.

**Moo** · 02-09-2009

Odd, I've never seen this before. If it happens again, can you leave it as is... and PM me the URL to the posts, so I can check how they are being stored?

Raccoon · 02-09-2009

sorry, just to clarify... it seems to me the act of deleting the first-laid post was not the same action that deleted both. I manually deleted the first laid post - successfully, including writing its edit/delete comment. The second-laid post appeared to me to be posted (act of initiating the "save post") - and hence the redirect message as "you have dbl-posted the same post within [time frame] - but it disappeared during the "fixing" period and the act of completing its "save post" did not occur.

I have seen this happen when the site stalls/goes down during such a fixing period; one often ends up with a double post.

Note also: the post given up top was in the replacement spot for the disappeared post, but it was not the same post per se; martin was able to post that one to me.

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Moo Space Cow Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Outer Space Posts: 1,080 Threads: 110 Gallery Uploads: 5 Wiki Edits: 66 Reputation: 68	Odd, I've never seen this before. If it happens again, can you leave it as is... and PM me the URL to the posts, so I can check how they are being stored?

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Raccoon VIP Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Alberta, Great White North Posts: 2,404 Threads: 100 Gallery Uploads: 1 Reputation: 81	sorry, just to clarify... it seems to me the act of deleting the first-laid post was not the same action that deleted both. I manually deleted the first laid post - successfully, including writing its edit/delete comment. The second-laid post appeared to me to be posted (act of initiating the "save post") - and hence the redirect message as "you have dbl-posted the same post within [time frame] - but it disappeared during the "fixing" period and the act of completing its "save post" did not occur. I have seen this happen when the site stalls/goes down during such a fixing period; one often ends up with a double post. Note also: the post given up top was in the replacement spot for the disappeared post, but it was not the same post per se; martin was able to post that one to me.