If one is posting a message while the board is slowing down in preparation of an outage, often times one gets a “time-out” or other indication that the post did not go through.
It did. It will. It always does. Please do not re-submit posts to the board. As David B and Gaudere say in Great Debates, “Trust the CGI.” (Those guys actually know what CGI is. Ask them.) Sometimes the message will not appear until someone else has posted, but it will post. Please do not repost a message until someone else has posted to a thread.
Cleaning up multi-posts is a time consuming venture. Guess how I’m spending the next few hours.
<i>manhattan</i>, You’ve probably noticed it already, but there’s another problem afoot as well - replies to posts are being registered, but you can’t see them unless you check the topic review prior to posting a reply yourself.
Sorry to seem dense, manhattan, but I posted a reply to Jois’ GQ Mt. Toba thread this afternoon, and it has yet to appear in the thread itself - only in the topic review. I thought the problem was related to the board slowdown at the same time, since I’d noticed brief delays before, but nothing that long-lasting.
This has only been an issue (to me) since this update - how can this be considered a good feature? So far I have pulled up posts by using reload before and after I post. Sometimes [shift]+ reload at the same time works.
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I just had my first dpost in the entire history of my relationship with TSDMB (nine months and counting). Naturally this was the very next thread that caught my eye. I promise not to repost from data ever again (Unless I just can’t stand waiting any longer).
Look up in the location bar: Ultimate CGI! Boy, I like to get my hands on some of that.
Just a friendly reminder. Guess what I’m doing for the next few hours. The current potential future ex-Mrs. manhattan is not going to be a happy person.
I try to weed out the really big ones so that people can read the thead. A post that takes up three screens carefully explaining an answer is a Very Good Thing. That same post repeated seven times (yes, really) is liable to turn people off from following the thread.
My primary goal in life is to protect the Ghod-given right of GQ posters to be erudite without being (unintentionally) repetitive. Unfortunately, it’s the longer posts that seem to get multi-posted the most. Maybe it’s a UBB thing (like that would be a shocker).
Just bumping this up so the daytime posters can get a look at it.
And now (8:45 EST) I’m gonna try an experiment.
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My theory: if I just put in a short post, and the board timed out on me, I would think “hell! I’ll just retype it in later.” But if it was an extra long post, I might click a bunch of times to make sure it gets posted since I spent so much time on it.
