# why can't we post more than once...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-post-more-than-once/49026
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**Created:** [January 8, 2001, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-post-more-than-once/49026 "2001-01-08T17:27:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2001, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-post-more-than-once/49026/1 "2001-01-08T17:27:12Z")
every sixty seconds?
Often, I’ll have two or three windows open, and I’ll be responding in multiple threads. I’ll hit “submit reply,” windowshade to a different reply and try to submit it. Y’all know the rest.
Now, it’s not like I’m **dying** to submit in rapid succession; it’s not that I can’t wait a moment, but it seems like a rather useless feature.
So what’s the reasoning behind it?
(bear in mind, I know who’s sandbox I’m playing in, I’m just curious)
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### Author:  [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-post-more-than-once/49026/2 "2001-01-08T17:46:18Z")
Makes it more difficult for trolls to flood the board with threads or threads with posts.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-post-more-than-once/49026/3 "2001-01-08T19:17:20Z")
I swear I remember simulposting with myself once. So now I’m attempting to simulpost with myself with this response and a response in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=53434) thread.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-post-more-than-once/49026/4 "2001-01-08T19:20:35Z")
Okay, so my previous post took place at 1:17pm CST as did [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1035059#post1035059) post. What’s the problem? You absolutely _can_ simulpost with yourself as long as the posts take place in different threads.
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### Author:  [@home\_schooled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/home_schooled)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-post-more-than-once/49026/5 "2001-01-09T00:38:20Z")
It’s a very big problem at most sites, especially when they are running slow, that people think their post “didn’t take”, so the hit send again. Flood control just slows that reaction to one minute, which should be enough to at least see that the system has received the request.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-post-more-than-once/49026/6 "2001-01-09T01:18:01Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by IJGrieve \*
> \*\*Makes it more difficult for trolls to flood the board with threads or threads with posts. \*\*
That’s a nice side effect, but **home schooled** is 100% correct on this one.