# Ever Repeat A Post? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426 "2003-07-14T17:09:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/1 "2003-07-14T17:09:55Z")
Dammit, I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting old or what it is, but I sometimes get the feeling that I’ve asked a question or posted a comment _before_! I try to check my posting history by putting keywords into the serach engine, but when nothing comes up, I assume it’s a new subject. However, I still get that feeling that in the past I’ve posted on that same subject before. Does this happen to y’all too? Come on now, **I** stepped up to the plate and admitted my possible senile dementia, now it’s y’all’s turn! 😃 Q ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/2 "2003-07-14T17:16:15Z")
Nope. Never. ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/3 "2003-07-14T17:17:25Z")
Nope. Never. Well, at least I got to do it first. In all honesty, that happens to me in real life so often, I just ignore that feeling now. ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/4 "2003-07-14T17:18:11Z")
Yeah it has and I’ve only been here 3 weeks :eek: That’s okay, I attribute it to giving birth and each time having portions of my brain delivered w/the placenta, blech. Then there’s your friendly, handy dandy mod who will come in and tell you there’s a thread like this elsewhere and lock you up … fortuantely, they give you a Get out of Jail Free card 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/5 "2003-07-14T18:11:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eilsel \* > **That’s okay, I attribute it to giving birth and each time having portions of my brain delivered w/the placenta, blech.** **Eilsel** , dear, that is the _funniest_ thing I have read in _months_! You actually made me laugh out loud when I read that! To quote an old movie line which wasn 't (to my knowledge) included in the cliche thread: _ **Thanks! I needed that!** _ 😃 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/6 "2003-07-14T19:12:50Z")
Hey, you’re welcome! I got a million of them…somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/7 "2003-07-14T20:54:50Z")
I keep telling people that I’m one of those ones that will go senile and no one will notice. And I keep telling them. And telling them. And telling them. It’s okay though, I have new friends every day and I can hide my own Easter Eggs. I keep telling people that I’m one of those ones that will go senile and no one will notice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Maria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Maria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maria)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/8 "2003-07-15T00:06:51Z")
I do it a lot with the board so slow. If I preview and it doesn’t return before I sign off, then I will not be sure if I posted or not, and have to check next time. ---
**Author:** ![lovelyluka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@lovelyluka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelyluka)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/9 "2003-07-15T00:08:01Z")
Hello, I’m luka, and I’m a senile twenty-year-old. _Hi, luka._ Every night, after I’ve caught up reading the SDMB, I take a shower and let my mind wander. And I come up with great thread topics, I tell ya. Really neat questions and polls that I’m sure could be answered by your regular Doper. But being a good semi-newbie Doper, I tell myself, “I’ll search to see if there’s a thread on that when I get out of the shower.” So I towel myself off, put on my robe, walk (still slightly dripping) back to my computer, bring up the search page, and… … … … …what was I going to search on again? This happens several times a week. Usually, I’ll remember the topic in the following night’s shower, only to forget it again once I get out. Apparently the shower is my portal to a higher state of thought, and unless I move my computer in there, I’ll never come up with witty thread topics. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/10 "2003-07-15T00:23:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quasimodem \* > \*\*Dammit, I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting old or what it is, but I sometimes get the feeling that I’ve asked a question or posted a comment _before_! I try to check my posting history by putting keywords into the serach engine, but when nothing comes up, I assume it’s a new subject. However, I still get that feeling that in the past I’ve posted on that same subject before. > > \*\* I went so far as to copy the links of each thread I’ve begun. It doesn’t take terribly long to do, and it’s even better if you do it over a week or so, rather than all at once. You copy the links to an email to yourself or to Notepad and then add the title of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/11 "2003-07-15T06:44:39Z")
No, but sometimes I forget that I have already posted in a thread, and I’ll post again. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/12 "2003-07-15T06:58:46Z")
Does it really matter? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/13 "2003-07-15T12:54:34Z")
Oh, I don’t know **violet** , I guess some of us just like to occassionally check in on the sanity meter. But I think mine’s broken. I don’t seem to be registering… ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/14 "2003-07-15T16:50:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*I went so far as to copy the links of each thread I’ve begun. It doesn’t take terribly long to do, and it’s even better if you do it over a week or so, rather than all at once. You copy the links to an email to yourself or to Notepad and then add the title of the thread. \*\* That’s a great idea, **dan** , thanks! Q ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/15 "2003-07-15T16:52:59Z")
No problemo! ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/16 "2003-07-15T22:37:41Z")
Maybe, if a topic has 250 replies to it & is 6 months old & I forgot if I wrote or not I might do what I call skip read first then post & hope for the best 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-repeat-a-post/188426/17 "2003-07-15T23:09:11Z")
Yup… I’ve done the quadruple-post thing a few times, including as recently as yesterday. (never mind my double- and triple-posts) As for repeating the actual content of what I’ve said in previous posts… yup! Done that too. 😃 F\_X