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