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Comment author: wedrifid 22 June 2011 05:40:22PM 4 points [-]

Too easy to double post. ie. I saw an entire page in recent comments in which there was not a single single post evident.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 June 2011 05:45:01PM 6 points [-]

Too easy to double post. ie. I saw an entire page in recent comments in which there was not a single single post evident.

This is especially stupid when combined with the inability to delete comments.

Comment author: matt 22 June 2011 07:42:27PM -1 points [-]

I don't understand.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 June 2011 09:53:32PM 2 points [-]

I thought the fact that the grandparent was posted 20 times within 5 seconds made the meaning rather obvious.

It. Is. Too. Easy. To. Double. Post. Comments.

Many people do so accidentally and in fact it is the case that yesterday there was a list of about 50 most recent comments that were all multiply posted. This is a bad thing. I cannot make this any more clear and would not take further incomprehension of evidence that my meaning is not clear.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 June 2011 10:23:30PM 6 points [-]

I note in myself a tendency to see some things I don't understand as "extremely bad", stupid, frustrating or etc., especially things that have changed recently from what I am used to.

Allow me to revise this. I can, in fact, supply instructions on how people are most likely to double post comments.

  • View any original post.
  • Find the comment box immediately below the post.
  • Write text.
  • Click "Comment"
  • Experience lag (like the entire site was experiencing immediately after the upgrade) or even just experience the slightly different commenting experience when commenting on posts vs commenting on other comments.
  • Click "Comment" again.
  • ???
  • Fail to profit.
Comment author: matt 23 June 2011 02:55:10AM 8 points [-]

That helped: we should disable the Comment button when you click it. Thanks for the bug report.

Comment author: kpreid 28 June 2011 03:32:50AM 6 points [-]

Please don't do this. In the event of a network failure, this can leave one unable to retry submitting a comment; I have actually experienced this on sites other than LW.

Instead, assign a unique identifier to each created comment form, and if the server receives two submissions with the same identifier, consider the second one an edit to the first comment. (Even client-side pseudorandom identifiers would be good enough for these purposes.)

Comment author: wedrifid 28 June 2011 07:06:26AM 0 points [-]

Exactly!

(I thought that this was how LW already worked. My impression was that the code for replying to comments still has such a system and it is just the replying to the original post that is broken.)

Comment author: Alicorn 29 July 2011 07:42:24PM *  2 points [-]

I'm guessing you implemented this, as the other page on which I just tried to make a comment is stalled. Not only is the Comment button disabled, I cannot select my comment's text to try again after reloading the page - the box is grayed out and won't take my cursor. So the comment is lost unless I hand-copy everything in it, or the page spontaneously recovers. Please fix this.

Edit: I can't even click Cancel.

Comment author: matt 03 August 2011 05:18:05AM 2 points [-]

You have my personal apology for the lost time.
We've intended to fix that properly for a while, but have not gotten around to it.

Comment author: MixedNuts 03 August 2011 07:18:44AM 4 points [-]

I would like to note that your consistently polite, selfless, composed, and even-handed behavior is making me react along the lines of "Stop countersignalling your high status by refusing to shoot down our attempts to grab status from you!".

That's not what I verbally think, though. What I verbally think is "Serene bastard.".

grumbles

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 22 June 2011 10:01:09PM 4 points [-]

I cannot make this any more clear and would not take further incomprehension of evidence that my meaning is not clear.

Divination of intended meaning is bounded at the moment, please hold.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 June 2011 10:21:35PM 2 points [-]

Divination of intended meaning is bounded at the moment, please hold.

Это слишком просто удвоить оставлять комментарии. На самом деле легко.