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by SantaFeJoe on Mon Jul 30, 2018 10:59 pm
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Twice today, I have posted replies on a thread, only to go back later and find they were posted a second time. Nothing done on my part to cause this. I’m wondering why. I haven’t noticed this happening to anyone else on other threads. Unfortunately, I have no way to delete the double post if someone else has posted a reply after me. This is an example and shows a delay in time between postings:

https://www.naturescapes.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=57&p=2559201#p2559201

Another was removed by me before any replies were posted.

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by Carol Clarke on Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:09 am
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This does happen occasionally, Joe, although I haven't seen such a large gap between duplications as shown in your example. If we spot them, we delete the duplicate. I have seen it happen when there are most users on the site at once which may cause a bit of a traffic jam, but I have asked our technical experts to have a look and let us have their view on this.

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by SantaFeJoe on Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:59 am
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Thanks, Carol. Usually when I see it happen on other sites, it is impatience on the part of the poster because a post doesn't show up immediately, so they click on "submit" again. Like you said, these were a long time between.

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by Carol Clarke on Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:29 am
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SantaFeJoe wrote:Thanks,  Carol. Usually when I see it happen on other sites, it is impatience on the part of the poster because a post doesn't show up immediately, so they click on "submit" again. Like you said, these were a long time between.

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Yes, I agree - but you don't strike me as that kind of guy, Joe.  :) 

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by Carol Clarke on Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:21 pm
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No positive explanations are showing up yet, Joe. It seems to be one of those odd things that only happens on rare occasions, which makes you somewhat special.

So there isn't really anything to tell you, other than there may have been an extremely rare fluctuation between the database, log and server time settings of as little as a couple of seconds, as you were posting, which resulted in this delayed duplication. If anything else comes to light we'll let you know.

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by SantaFeJoe on Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:50 pm
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Thanks for your help in this strange occurrence, Carol. Much appreciated.

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by SantaFeJoe on Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:46 pm
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Looks like it even happens to E.J.

viewtopic.php?f=57&t=278835&p=2559828#p2559828

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by Carol Clarke on Mon Aug 06, 2018 6:28 am
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SantaFeJoe wrote:Looks like it even happens to E.J.

viewtopic.php?f=57&t=278835&p=2559828#p2559828

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:D  and in the same second too!  Even the Maestro is sometimes at the mercy of technology.  :) 

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by SantaFeJoe on Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:39 am
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It happened again this morning soon after I posted a reply. Sure looks ridiculous when that happens if you don’t catch it soon enough to delete it!!!

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by Carol Clarke on Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:44 am
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SantaFeJoe wrote:It happened again this morning soon after I posted a reply. Sure looks ridiculous when that happens if you don’t catch it soon enough to delete it!!!

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I can see you deleted a post, Joe.  Was this another 'delayed' duplicate, or a same time one?

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by SantaFeJoe on Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:58 am
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It happened nearly at the same time. I didn’t notice the posting time on the second, but it was there really soon after posting the original. It happened here to Joe Smith (photoman4343) and it was the same time:

viewtopic.php?f=57&t=278988

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by Carol Clarke on Sat Aug 11, 2018 11:13 am
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As we agreed before, same time ones are usually due to hitting the button twice, but I will send a note to our tech. experts again so they can check the logs etc. for any clues.

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by SantaFeJoe on Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:25 am
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And now a triple post by “scoreless” all at same time:

https://www.naturescapes.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=279150&p=2560982#p2560982

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by Carol Clarke on Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:38 pm
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I know the development team have had another look but have not come back with any further ideas yet. I can only ask them again if anything is showing up as to why this happens, other than repeat hitting of submit.

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by Carol Clarke on Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:03 pm
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The reports so far from the technical team are showing that the repeat 'same time' posts are all due to the submit button being pressed more than once, whether the person submitting the post realises they are doing it or not. Delayed time repeats are so rare, they can't devote any more time to investigating that at the moment, but they will keep a check as time permits, Joe.

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by SantaFeJoe on Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:31 pm
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Thanks again, Carol.

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by SantaFeJoe on Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:28 pm
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Still happening, but this time there is a delay of a few minutes.

https://www.naturescapes.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=280465

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by SantaFeJoe on Sun Jan 20, 2019 2:49 pm
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It’s still happening. I caught it just now, but this time, as soon as the posting came up for review, I deleted it. I noticed that another posters’ post came up more than once this morning, but E. J. corrected it:

https://www.naturescapes.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=281504&sid=3fe1d393d705041a61bbeb952884a3f7

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by Carol Clarke on Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:39 am
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As I said before, Joe, the same time posts are so rare, and are almost always due to repeat tapping of submit, whether the original poster realises they have done this or not. The delayed repeats are even rarer. Of course either of these could be influenced by busy servers at the sending or receiving facility.

When you realise that the Naturescapes site averages some 12,600 posts each month, which means that in the six months since the start of this thread the total posts are over 75,000, the total of repeats is really tiny.

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