Gaudere wrote an eloquent plea over in GD. I’m stealing it, and reposting it here. I might also add that removing multiple posts irritates me to no end.
"Look, I know the board is having a lot of problems with going slow and timing out when you try to post, but the sheer number of multi-posts is getting extreme. If you think posting is slow, just try the glacially-slow interface for deleting these pesky little buggers sometime. I am quite literally spending over an hour a day just deleting extra posts. As a general rule, as soon as you hit “submit”, your post is in the database. Do not hit the submit button twice.
If the page times out…your post went through.
If it cannot find the server…your post went through.
If you hit “submit” and then hit “stop”…your post went through.
If you cannot see your post on the thread…it’s almost certainly there
anyhow.
If you hit “submit”, notice a typo one picosecond later and hit “stop”,
correct the typo and hit “submit” again…you just double-posted.
If you think it isn’t going fast enough and hit “submit” a few more times…you just multi-posted.
If you are concerned that a post didn’t go through after you hit submit once, C&P your post and save it somewhere; if your post hasn’t showed in a couple hours or there are posts showing up after yours was submitted, but yours still has not…resubmit it ONCE. If you happen to notice the post count on a thread before you post and it has incremeted by one after a seemingly failed attempt to post…relax. Your post has gone through, and it will show up eventually.
There are some plans afoot that hopefully will speed up the board and prevent the “timing out” and invisible postproblems. Until that happens, though, please try to help us mods out and take extra precautions against multi-posts.
On a less moderate note, there are 11 copies of a single post in one thread, as well as several other multis. Remember what I said about feeding the next person who multiposted to the vampire slugs? Well, all I can say is some of you guys better start stuffing your pockets with garlic salt… "
Lynn
If it’s helpful, I’ll compare everyone to Hitler so we can get this
over with as soon as possible.
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