# Double posts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [February 19, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184 "2003-02-19T19:25:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/1 "2003-02-19T19:25:11Z")
Starting to see a few of these. Are people hitting the ‘submit’ button twice (if so have patience) or are they genuine DB errors?
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/2 "2003-02-19T19:57:29Z")
As a WAG – I’d say it’s partly due to periodic slowing of the board and, as you said, **UnwrittenNocturne** – simply hitting “Submit Post” twice when you’re not sure the words of wisdom got through to the world.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/3 "2003-02-19T21:21:29Z")
It’s probably a little of both. Occasionally you’ll see double-posts separated by fair sized spans of time.
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/4 "2003-02-20T05:37:57Z")
Yup, the phenomenon just got to me, too. _shrug_ More care needed for the moment, I think. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/5 "2003-02-20T08:05:33Z")
The boards have been a bit wonky today, it happens from time to time. Don’t sweat it. And don’t bother following up a double post with an apology post, we know you didn’t mean to. 😉
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/6 "2003-02-20T17:32:26Z")
One time I hit submit once (as you can see, I have hit submit alot) & got a double post.
99% of the time it posts once if I hit submit once, twice if I hit submit twice, etc.
Often I have to copy the url of the page that hasn’t sent me the thank you for posting page back, into a new browser window to see if the message did post, & sure enough 95% of the time it has, so I just close the page.
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### Author:  [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/7 "2003-02-20T17:41:02Z")
Thank you for the tips- this is an extraordinarily large board, compared to others I have been on, and is very slow-
or is it particularly slow today?
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/8 "2003-02-21T01:04:03Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by eburacum45 \*
> \*\*Thank you for the tips- this is an extraordinarily large board, compared to others I have been on, and is very slow-
> or is it particularly slow today? \*\*
It’s been normal speed today. You should’ve been here before the new server–it was so slow that we almost got back to our real lives!
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### Author:  [@lothos2002](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lothos2002)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/9 "2003-02-21T22:37:32Z")
I have been guilty of the double and at times the triple post, and didn’t know what was going on. I think that the problem was that I was hitting the “back” button on my browser, which brings you back to the screen that takes your post to the forum, thereby posting it again. I haven’t tested my theory, though, since I don’t want to double post on purpose.
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### Author:  [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/10 "2003-02-21T22:45:47Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by lothos2002 \*
> \*\*I haven’t tested my theory, though, since I don’t want to double post on purpose. \*\*
But, **Lothos**! That’s what ATMB was created for!
Testing Back-Button Double-posting hypothesis… the results shall be self-evident.
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### Author:  [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/11 "2003-02-21T22:49:10Z")
I clicked ‘Back’ Once from the threadview-after-post screen, waited the sixty seconds, and then hit ‘refresh’ (because WinXP makes you). No double-post.
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### Author:  [@lothos2002](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lothos2002)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/12 "2003-02-23T03:56:49Z")
O.K. **wolfstu** I’ll give it a try also.
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### Author:  [@lothos2002](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lothos2002)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-posts/156184/13 "2003-02-23T03:58:02Z")
Yes, It doesn’t happen. I guess this disproves my hypothesis. Good! Now I don’t have to worry so much about hitting the back button!
Thanks for that.