# Duplicate Post Detection?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duplicate-post-detection/333776>\
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**Created:** [December 2, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duplicate-post-detection/333776 "2005-12-02T18:19:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duplicate-post-detection/333776/1 "2005-12-02T18:19:31Z")

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After hitting submit, the board seemed to hang, and I hit stop, back and resubmitted. I then got a message saying that this was a duplicate post, and rejecting it. It was true!

Is this a new feature? Very cool if so.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duplicate-post-detection/333776/2 "2005-12-04T02:22:45Z")

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I think sometimes it works, and sometimes we just see double.

Glad to hear it worked for you.

TubaDiva

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**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duplicate-post-detection/333776/3 "2005-12-04T22:01:40Z")

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I’ll second the second possibility, having just double-posted a message myself. In my case I just hit “stop” and then “submit” and got no warning. Guess it all depends on how you do it.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duplicate-post-detection/333776/4 "2005-12-05T20:27:41Z")

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Usually when it seems to hang I open up a new tab, go back into thread, and see if the post showed up. I forgot to do this this time, which is why I ran into it.

How early does the post get added relative to the confirmation that the post occurred? Most of the time when I do check to see if the post got made it did, which leads me to believe that something is susceptible to hanging in between. However, since I post at work on a hacked up version of Mozilla running under Solaris, I never expect my experience to be similar to anyone else’s.