# Double Posts **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698 "2002-06-12T19:36:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fallom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@fallom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fallom)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/1 "2002-06-12T19:36:20Z")
One thing has irked me ever since I came to this board. Pretty much every time someone makes a double post, they post a _third_ post saying something similar to "Oh Em Gee! I made a double post! I am such a :wally " No one thinks of a double post as a grab for attention, since it’s so easy to do one. Posting a “woopsy” message doesnt accomplish anything at all. In fact, in my mind it makes you a person who values a high post count as much as Jesus valued his wine making skills. So what the fuck? ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/2 "2002-06-12T21:40:16Z")
The temptation to double post is almost overwhelming… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/3 "2002-06-12T22:03:48Z")
The temptation to double post is almost overwhelming… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/4 "2002-06-12T22:43:23Z")
Do not besmirch JC and the hooch skillz. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/5 "2002-06-12T22:47:32Z")
I actually don’t think he valued his hooch skillz all that much. He had to be nagged into it, after all. ---
**Author:** ![fallom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@fallom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fallom)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/6 "2002-06-13T00:25:33Z")
I dont want talk of hooch in my thread! Only talk of _real_ liquor. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/7 "2002-06-13T15:11:05Z")
Great I get to be the first 😃 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/8 "2002-06-13T15:14:55Z")
Well great just when I want to intentionally simul-post it wont let me. [sub]fucking computers[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/9 "2002-06-13T16:34:09Z")
Usually, If the server didn’t connect, and I resend, I’ll apologize for the double post in that message, and so you get a pseudo-double post…of course sometimes, it didn’t post originally and it just looks silly. But I know what you mean. Jman ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/10 "2002-06-13T23:20:52Z")
Why don’t they just apologise in the second of the duplicate posts? [sub]Yeah…I know; it’s like a friend of mine who sent me a birthday card very late, inside, she wrote “sorry it’s late, it must have got lost in the post”[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/11 "2002-06-14T02:05:57Z")
I don’t know where these double posts are coming from. I don’t think I’ve ever double-posted on this board. (If anyone can find an example of a double-post by me, then I stand corrected, of course.) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \*[sub]Yeah…I know; it’s like a friend of mine who sent me a birthday card very late, inside, she wrote “sorry it’s late, it must have got lost in the post”[/sub] \*\* **Mangetout** , can I reword that and use it in my sig? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/12 "2002-06-14T03:27:55Z")
If you double post, then drop the moderator a line, she/he/it will gladly fix it for you by deleting the extra post. If, on the other hand, you double post _then_ post an apology, we have _two_ posts to delete-the double and the apology. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/13 "2002-06-14T04:25:02Z")
Huh? I don’t get the card thing. Couldn’t it have been the second card that she sent? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/14 "2002-06-14T05:56:52Z")
The card thing sounds like they were making a joke, to me. Damn funny one, too! ---
**Author:** ![whatami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85f322/32.png) [@whatami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatami)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/113698/15 "2002-06-14T06:01:31Z")
“uhh yeah, Jesus. I got this sage here… I don’t know if you can… you know, like the wine… maybe?”