double posting

Sabarai · Post by **Sabarai** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:08 pm

Tank, please fix the posting thing; you won't get the screen with click here to view your post, click here to go back to the forum index... Everybody keeps making double posts...

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:02 pm

I got the error too but didn't try posting again. The post was added without problems, only it wasn't marked as read.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:34 pm

Sabarai wrote:Tank, please fix the posting thing; you won't get the screen with click here to view your post, click here to go back to the forum index... Everybody keeps making double posts...

Or we could all just curb our natural insane tendency to "try the same thing and expect different results". Since when does refreshing a page actually increase the likelihood that a bug will be fixed?

I realize I haven't been posting heavily while Tank's mail server is down (which is what the debug messages say), but I haven't had any duplicate posts either.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:38 pm

Well, the other kind of message I get often when posting here are temporary DNS failures that do get "fixed" by reloading. Add to that that normally an errorr message when posting indicates that your post was not completed (thus not posted) makes it quite a natural assumption that just reloading the page (or going back and hitting submit again) is the right thing to try first, because the one thing you don't expect is a double post. Of all the things you can do, it has the best effort to likelyhood of success ratio.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:45 pm

I'm with you z-man.

Sab's comment came after the flood of posts, hence my smart-ass remark.

It does seem to be an intermittent failure, though. Some of my posts get the error message and some of them don't.

Edit: This message didn't get the error message.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:18 am

z-man wrote:Well, the other kind of message I get often when posting here are temporary DNS failures that do get "fixed" by reloading. Add to that that normally an errorr message when posting indicates that your post was not completed (thus not posted) makes it quite a natural assumption that just reloading the page (or going back and hitting submit again) is the right thing to try first, because the one thing you don't expect is a double post. Of all the things you can do, it has the best effort to likelyhood of success ratio.

The error looked like something failed unexpectedly in the middle, and thus it may or may not have been posted. I'm going to do a test on this thread...

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 8:27 am

you guys know tanks on vacation, right? just wait out these small problems till he gets back

http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t= ... t=vacation

Sabarai · Post by **Sabarai** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:04 pm

Oh ok, so that's why the site's not so optimal

Edit: Just don't wait for the error and when you have clicked Submit click ok the thread you posted the post on and it will be marked as read. Don't wait for the error but do it while it's loading the page. This will reduce double posts...

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:46 pm

Does everyone get the error in this thread now?

Edit: I got it.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:55 pm

What has happened to me follows as follows:

- I type up a post.
- I click submit.
- The loading stalls.

At this point, if I hit esc to stop loading the page, and then click submit again, there will be a double-post. But...if I'm patient, the stall will eventually cease and I get a page informing me there has been a debug error (something to that effect).

- I go back to the index.
- I navigate to the topic to which I just posted.
- The post is there with no doubling.

Without anyone specifying, my presumption is that double-posts are caused by people's lack of patience.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:56 pm

And yes, it just happened again with that post. But, I was patient, heh. Here is the message I received:

General Error

Could not connect to smtp host : 110 : Connection timed out

DEBUG MODE

Line : 111
File : smtp.php

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 8:25 pm

I bookmarked http://guru3.sytes.net/search.php?search_id=newposts
awhile back and stuck it on my browser's toolbar, so to deal with this all I have to do after posting is click that bookmark.

Post by **Tank Program** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:17 pm

Hmm yes, sorry about this. My home (mail) server did indeed die while I was gone for reasons currently unknown. Things should be better now though.

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