# Multiple Posts: When the Board Gets Slow and Crashes **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 28, 2000, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819 "2000-02-28T23:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/21 "2000-03-13T20:08:00Z")
I meant to post to this thread this weekend, but I decided to wait until today when more people would see it. The Message Board went out on Friday afternoon, starting here in General Questions. Ready for this? _Only two multiposts!_ Heh. Great Debates was littered with them. So thank you and good job. I was seriously irritated about the prospect of coming in after the board came back up to clean up a mess that was no one’s fault. The fact that what I expected to be a flood was only a little spill was really cool. On a related note, you may notice that sometimes I leave the multiposts up. There are two reasons I do that. The first is when the post is small, so even the accumulation of them does not seriously ruin members’ ability to read the thread. The other is when someone refers to them. I don’t want that person’s comment to be left hanging, so I leave the multiposts. So out of respect for your fellow posters, please do not refer to multiposts in your own messages. Just drop me an email and I’ll see about cleaning up. ## Thanks again. [Change Your Password, Please](http://204.95.48.199/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=3&Start=2451545.99&End=2451911&Session=2451598.1854) and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled, but you can learn about superscripts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000795.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/22 "2000-03-13T20:43:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by manhattan: > **_Only two multiposts!_ Heh. Great Debates was littered with them…The fact that what I expected to be a flood was only a little spill was really cool.** It’s because we love you, manny. (checking watch) And the Strip-O-Gram girls should be knocking on your office door…just… about…_now._ * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/23 "2000-03-14T00:12:00Z")
Why aren’t you teaching people the art of deleting their own duplicate posts with “the delete post button???” ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/24 "2000-03-14T03:47:00Z")
What “delete post button” are you speaking of, handy? ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/25 "2000-03-14T16:19:00Z")
Kat, that little icon with the red arrow next to it. You can pretty much delete most of your post with it. Im not sure if you can do the whole thing. Find a post you wrote & select that icon. Its near the subject line to your right. ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/26 "2000-03-14T16:31:00Z")
That’s the quoting feature, handy. All you can do is qoute yourself and edit your own (or anybody else’s) quote. It shows up as a new post. The original post remains unchanged. ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/27 "2000-03-15T06:42:00Z")
Hey! Shouldn’t one of the Mods move this to ATMB? ---
**Author:** ![Avumede](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/avumede/32/7235_2.png) [@Avumede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avumede)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/28 "2000-03-15T06:44:00Z")
I confess to having re-posted 7 huge replies in a row, in Great Debates. I really felt stupid, especially since I would ordinarily know better, except in this case I did not get any response from the server at all, so assumed it didn’t go through. Reloading did not show my posts, and I didn’t want to abandon such a long post. Anyway, my mistake. Curiously enough, though, the moderator did not want to remove the septuple posting! The rationale was, I had already posted an apology, and someone else commented on it, and so removing the 7 posts would leave future readers puzzled. I think that’s a big mistake, especially since my mess has killed the thread. It should be easy enough to delete my multiples, post a quick explanation, and end the story. I said so to the moderator, who never got back to me. Perhaps he fixed it, I don’t know… but i never saw the thread again. Anyway, this board could definately either use a code improvement to prevent multiple postings (it shouldn’t be hard to do), or moderators who are more willing to wield their deletion capabilities. ---
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/29 "2000-03-15T02:37:00Z")
It wasn’t me! I only flood! ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/30 "2000-03-15T02:39:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by handy: > **Kat, that little icon with the red arrow next to it. You can pretty much delete most of your post with it. Im not sure if you can do the whole thing. Find a post you wrote & select that icon. Its near the subject line to your right.** You mean this thing: [![](https://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/quote.gif) ](https://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/quote.gif) (if this UBB code works, that is)? You’ve never clicked on it, have you? Got to ATMB and click on it in a few threads and see what happens. * * * Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99. _SD chat:_ **\** Kat’s here! the board must be down! ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/31 "2000-03-21T22:50:00Z")
OK, I’m sending this back to the top because the board is going really slow right now. I don’t think it’s going to crash, but still… Thanks again for your help during the last couple of crashes. It’s really been a help to see fewer posts to remove. * * * [Change Your Password, Please](http://204.95.48.199/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=3&Start=2451545.99&End=2451911&Session=2451598.1854) and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled, but you can learn about superscripts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000795.html) ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/32 "2000-03-23T19:04:00Z")
Just a reminder which I hope will not be timely. * * * [Change Your Password, Please](http://204.95.48.199/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=3&Start=2451545.99&End=2451911&Session=2451598.1854) and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled, but you can learn about superscripts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000795.html) ---
**Author:** ![quadell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@quadell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quadell)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/33 "2000-03-23T21:09:00Z")
Um, I keep getting a 504 Gateway Time-out error whenever I post. (Lost Connection to Original Server). I expect to get it when I submit this. I really hope this post doesn’t show up at all. If it does, consider it my deep, \deep\ apology to you moderators out there. Especially in MPSIMS. Hanging head in shame, Your Quadell ---
**Author:** ![quadell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@quadell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quadell)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/34 "2000-03-23T22:07:00Z")
Oh dear. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/35 "2000-03-23T22:38:00Z")
I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t read this thread before I tried to repost a message after getting a timeout error. I failed to trust the CGI. I’m sorry, I’m so sorry. (At least I only did it in the Kundalini Yoga thread which hasn’t been a high-traffic topic.) * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819/36 "2000-04-06T16:40:00Z")
The board is getting slow, so I thought it timely to bring this up as a reminder. Overall, you guys have been doing great. Thanks for helping out. * * * [NYC IRL III](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/006163.html) is on April 15th. Do you have what it takes? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-posts-when-the-board-gets-slow-and-crashes/9819.md?page=1)