# Echo...echo...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echo-echo/108858>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 13, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echo-echo/108858 "2002-05-13T17:57:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echo-echo/108858/1 "2002-05-13T17:57:32Z")

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Some of us have encountered a problem when posting a reply, in my case I was using the quick reply. The Submit for the quick reply echoes at random: click once, post twice. I hope this is being fixed.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echo-echo/108858/2 "2002-05-13T19:00:21Z")

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I use the quick reply box regularly, and that has never happened to me. Are you _sure_ you only clicked once? 100% sure? **Positive**?

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**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echo-echo/108858/3 "2002-05-13T21:22:15Z")

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Swear on your mother’s life, stick a needle in your eye, pinky swear, positively absolutely without a doubt 100% definitely indubitably totally and utterly catagorically positive?

Are you sure?

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echo-echo/108858/4 "2002-05-13T21:36:57Z")

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Yes, I’m absolutely, positively, pinky swear on my mother’s life and stick a needle in my eye sure. I’ve encountered the echo twice so far and I know others claim to have their posts echo too but I can’t say if they’re using the quick reply or not. The latest echo appears to be [John Bredin](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115011).

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echo-echo/108858/5 "2002-05-13T21:38:25Z")

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Hmm…just noticed the timestamps there. Perhaps that wasn’t the latest after all.

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**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echo-echo/108858/6 "2002-05-14T10:49:22Z")

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I use quick reply all the time, but I haven’t had this problem yet. Maybe happens more when the board hiccups?