# replies ending up in different threads

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replies-ending-up-in-different-threads/18892>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 8, 2000, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replies-ending-up-in-different-threads/18892 "2000-05-08T09:28:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replies-ending-up-in-different-threads/18892/1 "2000-05-08T09:28:29Z")

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I’ve noticed a lot of this lately, and tonight it happened to me. If this has been brought up before, I apologize. Hopefully this ends up in the right forum hehe.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replies-ending-up-in-different-threads/18892/2 "2000-05-08T15:40:11Z")

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Can you give some specifics? That would make it easier for us to track down what’s going on here.

your humble TubaDiva  
Adminstrator

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**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replies-ending-up-in-different-threads/18892/3 "2000-05-08T16:10:33Z")

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I was just reading one.

bibliophage complains about it on  
\*\* [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23751](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23751) \*\*

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replies-ending-up-in-different-threads/18892/4 "2000-05-08T16:24:56Z")

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I’m betting that almost all the time it happens, the poster has had multiple reply windows open, or has been perusing several threads and clicked ‘post reply’ on the wrong one.

It’s only happened to me once in my year+ on the SDMB - yesterday, of all times. But it was clearly my fault.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replies-ending-up-in-different-threads/18892/5 "2000-06-09T04:35:55Z")

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For the record, I suspect that was my fault, but I’ve never been quite sure. I think that was the only time it ever happened to me. I do generally use 2 browser windows so one thread can load while I read the other. It may be that I was replying to 2 threads at once and got confused.