http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177660
I know this happens if the OP gets “eaten”, but nobody mentioned that it in this thread. Is that what happenend?
Also, as I post this, that thread has a total of 10 posts (gobear’s post is the last one). So the forum list should list 9 replies. But it lists 8. This could happen if there’s a server hiccup as one of the posts is submitted. Was this thread hit with bad luck twice, or was there something else afoot?
Maybe the server sputtered a double post, and ate the one showing the title?
Ah, but if you double-post on an OP, it doesn’t make a thread with two posts to it; it makes two threads. Of course, this is under normal conditions. If the server double-posts and eats one of them, well, I guess we’d never know about it, unless something like this happened. I’ve also found one more thread that had an errant post total, one short again. But I haven’t found a link between them. Probably nothing…
You’re right on the double-OP = double thread business, Achernar. Sorry, I was only theorising. But, I have had at least one double post happen where I didn’t click “submit” twice. Just wondered if that was a similar situation to this one.
Reckon you might have to start up another X-file, unless someone comes up with an explanation.
Heh, that’s nothing. I’ve quintuple-posted with only hitting Submit once. 
This server definitely has its screwy times.
Oh, was that why …? 
That’s That’s nothing nothing compared compared to to the the times times that that the the server server doubles doubles the the post post itself itself without without rhyme rhyme or or reason reason.
AAAAHHHHHH!!! Double vision! Nooooooo…
runs screaming for the hills… or at least, to places where there are more normal posts about
F_X
Usually. But does it make any sense to talk about the board’s usual unusual behaviour ;)? I know I’ve seen at least one case of a single thread with a double OP. But then again, that might be the result of a merger, I suppose…
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