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Posted by medinaM5 on Oct-24-2006 17:37:

double posting makes it look like your too eager to say whatever it was you said

Posted by itsamemario on Oct-24-2006 17:50:

quote:
Originally posted by Ivand
we have

those have different time stamps...

Posted by Ivand on Oct-24-2006 17:57:

Posted by medinaM5 on Oct-24-2006 17:58:

southpark avatar overload

Posted by itsamemario on Oct-24-2006 18:12:

quote:
Originally posted by medinaM5
southpark avatar overload

ive had mine for like half a year or more, maybe its time for me to change it

Posted by Ivand on Oct-24-2006 18:13:

System Crash Inminent

Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Oct-25-2006 03:59:

I'm not sure. maybe your computer has a double posting systems error!

Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Oct-25-2006 04:01:

I'm not sure. maybe your computer has a double posting systems error.

Posted by Omega_M on Oct-25-2006 04:10:

Let's see if double posting works...

edit - No it doesn't

Posted by mezzir on Oct-25-2006 04:52:

trying again.....

edit: yeah my internet's too quick
couldn't even hit post then stop before it loaded
damn it all

Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Oct-25-2006 04:58:

quote:
Originally posted by mezzir
trying again.....

edit: yeah my internet's too quick
couldn't even hit post then stop before it loaded
damn it all

damn that sucks. Maybe you should contact your internet provider & demand double post provledges.

Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Oct-25-2006 04:59:

quote:
Originally posted by mezzir
trying again.....

edit: yeah my internet's too quick
couldn't even hit post then stop before it loaded
damn it all

damn thot socks. Maybe you should contoct your internot provoder & demond double pooh provlodges.

Posted by mezzir on Oct-25-2006 05:02:

quote:
Originally posted by Xenocreator_PG_
damn thot socks. Maybe you should contoct your internot provoder & demond double pooh provlodges.

faker!
socks in one, sucks in the other, plus different times posted

Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Oct-25-2006 05:04:

quote:
Originally posted by mezzir
faker!
socks in one, sucks in the other, plus different times posted

boostod. dode thot socks most bo more corefol noxt tome so thot people dont notoce ot bootsocks

Posted by itsamemario on Oct-25-2006 06:19:

quote:
Originally posted by josh4
i'm sure swamper will be in here soon to give you the technical annalysis. in the meantime, they basically occur when you press that damned submit button more than once.

once you hit submit, information about your post is sent to the TA servers. after your post is sent, your browser waits for the TA servers to send back a response saying "ok we got your post, now go to this page." when the servers are busy it might take them a while to send that response, historical data shows with TA servers this can take up to several minutes. so people are left with two choices: sit and watch the animated icon at the top right or get frustrated and hit submit again, and again, and again. each time they hit submit the same post information is sent to the TA servers, which already got the information from the first two times (were just too busy to tell you) and this results in a double, triple, or more post

yeah, but the server will also tell you that u can't post with less than 20 seconds in between the posts

Posted by Swamper on Oct-25-2006 08:17:

quote:
Originally posted by josh4
well thats getting into the technical specifics. my best guess would be that the 20 second rule is based on when the server receives the posts and not the time stamp on the posts. for example, the first post could have a time stamp for 17:01:03 and the next one at 17:01:13. these aren't 20 seconds apart but the server processes them more than 20 seconds from each other. the whole point was the server was busy so it takes some time for it to get from one post to the other and doesn't necessarily process each one sequentially but could have many posts from other people inbetween each of yours

Pretty much.

Basically, if the database is too busy to process your new post/reply then you sit around waiting - it doesn't even know that your post is coming in so it can't really tell you to not click again (lol). The only way around this is to set up a javascript to change the button to deny you the possibility of double/triple posting. I think the new version of the forums does something like this anyways...

The other bad thing that can happen is you end up with a 'server not responding/page cannot be displayed' error - which would happen if your request can't be processed by the web server because it's too busy. Always copy your post to the clipboard anywhere you post online because you never know when that can happen and everything you typed is gone forever. (not so bad in firefox, common in IE)

Posted by itsamemario on Oct-25-2006 08:32:

quote:
Originally posted by Swamper

The other bad thing that can happen is you end up with a 'server not responding/page cannot be displayed' error - which would happen if your request can't be processed by the web server because it's too busy. Always copy your post to the clipboard anywhere you post online because you never know when that can happen and everything you typed is gone forever. (not so bad in firefox, common in IE)

omgno, i might have to type butth4x again

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