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How to avoid double posting

Zoltea

Zoltea

Zoltea - The Jolteon
This will be a rather simple guide. I've noticed double and triple posts en masse due to server errors. There's a simple solution to avoid multiple posts.

After posting, it may sit there loading and loading endlessly or simply hit the well-known "server error 500". A lot of people refresh when they encounter this hitting "resend" when asked. This is how you end up with multiple posts.

I'm sure most of you have been on the forums index page enough times for your computer to have a near-flawless cache save of it. If this is so, before refreshing after encountering a server error, go to the forums index in a new tab and check to see if the post actually went through. If you do not find that topic on top with you being the last poster, then go ahead and refresh the server error and resend. If you do find your post there though, simply close out the tab of the topic you were posting in. This should help clean up the topics a bit. ^^

EDIT: Ironically, I got a server error when posting this and did have to resend.
 
Unfortunately, most of the time you get posts sent through normally and they will still double-post. So that's... not really all that helpful.

EDIT: also, it's really not hard to delete double-posts. :C It's not a big deal.
 
A lot go unnoticed for a while though, so it's better to avoid it altogether. Admittedly I haven't had any double posts from the first send.
 
Admittedly, he DID have to resend this one according to the first post.

But personally, if it goes unnoticed it's not a big deal. ARGH THE SERVER FUCKED UP AND MADE YOU POST TWICE!! The mods will not infract you for that, so just delete it or we'll probably find it later and delete it. It's fine.
 
Yeah I usually just like ... leave my double posts alone because ... idk I don't really care about them. IT HAPPENS SOMETIMES k
 
A lot of the time it happens when you use Quick Reply, especially if your post is relatively long; it will wait for a certain amount of time for the AJAX to report success, and if it doesn't, the forum will instead try to actually physically submit the form. If the AJAX post actually did go through, it will get posted twice.
 
A lot of the time with quick replies, it just goes to the "Go advanced" page saying "You can only post one post every 20 seconds. Please try again in 15 seconds". Then, in order to make it show up I hit the reply button and then delete the post before that. If you, mods, go to my novel's thread, you'll see one deleted post for every chapter before chapter 20. I'm not even kidding.

In other, unrelated news, earlier I was getting a strange error page saying it couldn't find the server or something. It was not a 500 error, and it loaded about eight and a half times quicker than a 500 error. Also, at the top it sometimes said "Server shutdown in progress" along with a bit of other text that probably meant something but I'm not a programmer yet so I wouldn't know. What exactly was that about?

And finally, the 500 errors themselves. Does anyone know why exactly they are occurring so often? Because two months ago there were none.
 
Yes, Butterchuru's been trying to fix the problem, but apparently it's not the hacks so she has no idea what is going daaaaaaan!
 
My best guess by now is that it's just excessive traffic on the server.
 
Forum said:
This post is a duplicate of a post that you have posted in the last five minutes. You will be redirected to that thread.
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Is that new? :o
 
Tailsy said:
ARGH THE SERVER FUCKED UP AND MADE YOU POST TWICE!! The mods will not infract you for that, so just delete it or we'll probably find it later and delete it. It's fine.
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We also don't infract non-accidental double posts if both posts have content and it's been more than, say, a day.
 
What? What double post? I don't see it... surskitty never does such imperfect things...
 
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