Duplicate postings when following up on a thread

[era]

My post count is probably inflated by something like 20% over the last few days, because the site often posts my reply twice when the load is high. Is there something I can do to avoid this? Is there something I should be doing to notify site administrators about the duplicates? I could click on the "Report this posting" icon if you like, rather than go back and edit down the duplicate to a no-op.

Also, should there be terminology to distinguish these duplicates from those resulting from deliberate cross-posting (separately posting the same message to multiple threads)?

[DukeNuke2]

i've had this duplicate postings also with high load. but i can delete them after this happens.

[Franklin52]

Originally Posted by DukeNuke2

i've had this duplicate postings also with high load. but i can delete them after this happens.

Yes, but only mods have the ability to delete posts, it's terrible at the moment, I've deleted a lot of those unintentional double posts.

[Neo]

The best thing to do is to avoid logging in and posting from 8:00 am to 14:00 am Eastern Time in the US until we get the upgrade done.

Thank you for your patience!

[era]

That leaves an unattractive "This message has been deleted by era" trail; is there any way to avoid that? (I went ahead and deleted the duplicates I could quickly find.)

[Neo]

Originally Posted by era

That leaves an unattractive "This message has been deleted by era" trail; is there any way to avoid that? (I went ahead and deleted the duplicates I could quickly find.)

When you delete your own threads, Registered Member cannot see the deletion notice, or at least that is how I recall it.

Anyway, please don't "sweat the small stuff" when there are bigger issues to solve at this time, which is our coming hardware upgrade.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

[jim mcnamara]

Followup - is there any way to lessen the impact of spiders and search operations? Right now we 26 have active users and 1540 guests.

This might alleivate some issues until the upgrade happens.