# My Humble apologies but I only posted twice

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-humble-apologies-but-i-only-posted-twice/1199>\
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**Created:** [April 7, 2000, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-humble-apologies-but-i-only-posted-twice/1199 "2000-04-07T05:53:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-humble-apologies-but-i-only-posted-twice/1199/1 "2000-04-08T00:48:00Z")

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Really.

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**Author:** ![ralphredan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ralphredan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralphredan)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-humble-apologies-but-i-only-posted-twice/1199/2 "2000-04-08T02:23:00Z")

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This site is just not taking responsibility for its own failings. I’ve tried to post one message three times today.

Each time I was staring at an hourglass for 5 minutes, then got a page fault.

Reading all the huffing and puffing about multiple posts, I waited a half hour, and when the message did not appear, tried again.  
If, as the scolding goes, the messages will all eventually appear, then tough. I tried.

The whole site has been up and down so much these last few days I don’t blame anyone for doubting their message got through.

If it happens because they have more viewers than their bandwidth supports, you’d think they could just delete the duplicates and not fuss about them. Or leave them in and not fuss about them.

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**Author:** ![Chrome\_Toaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Chrome\_Toaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chrome_Toaster)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-humble-apologies-but-i-only-posted-twice/1199/3 "2000-04-07T05:53:00Z")

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A couple of my posts took over 2 hours to show up earlier. But I didn’t hit the submit button more than once.