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LeoNatan
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 Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 12:26 Post subject: Eliminating Double/Triple Posts |
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Hey admins!
There is a system on a few other forums that works quite well, and can work here as well. Whenever someone posts in a thread where he is the last poster, and it is within, let's say, one day of his last post in the thread, the new post is concatenated to his last post. This takes care of double/triple/etc posting caused by latency issues, and also eases on posting multiple replies. What happens now, if you want to answer to a few people, you have to open a few reply tabs, copy the quotation, and answer in a new post. If my proposed system is in place, posting a second reply would just add it to the previous post, resulting in a similar post. I say withing one day, because sometimes it is necessary to bump old threads (like when there is a news post, or when asking for help and bumping the thread). I think this is a nice system, and don't think should be very difficult to implement.
Thanks in advance! 
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| Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 19:07 Post subject: |
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even easier would be that you just cant double post and have to work yourself to edit your post 
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 19:22 Post subject: |
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No, the idea is not to make it harder for people to post, but as transparent as possible.
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| Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 19:29 Post subject: |
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if the double post is an update that adds to the thread I don't see why it should be disallowed
but if it's just spam that'll take space in the page then yeah
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| Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 19:31 Post subject: |
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Thats a good point FireMaster. one way to get around that would be to copy your old text and then delete your post, Paste the old text and write the new.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 19:35 Post subject: |
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| FireMaster wrote: | if the double post is an update that adds to the thread I don't see why it should be disallowed
but if it's just spam that'll take space in the page then yeah |
This is why I propose that there is a time frame where posts that are in are concatenated, while if the new post is out, it is posted the usual way. |
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| Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 22:41 Post subject: |
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Last edited by Yondaime on Mon, 2nd Dec 2024 16:04; edited 1 time in total
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Wed, 22nd Apr 2009 22:47 Post subject: |
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Yep, this method is common on IP.Board forums. Also, I think it is harder to implement.
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 19:06 Post subject: |
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I used this on a few vbulletin's I admin'd for, great feature
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 19:10 Post subject: |
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| iNatan wrote: | | FireMaster wrote: | if the double post is an update that adds to the thread I don't see why it should be disallowed
but if it's just spam that'll take space in the page then yeah |
This is why I propose that there is a time frame where posts that are in are concatenated, while if the new post is out, it is posted the usual way. |
Why did you use the word concatenate, when 'merge' would have been more appropriate?
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 19:40 Post subject: |
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| iNatan wrote: | Because, technically, the operation "post1 + post2," which is what Rinze would essentially do, in computer science is concatenation and not merger.
 Spoiler: | Looking for a pretentious reason for not using a shorter word, when the meaning would practically be the same.  |
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Hehe, I'm cool with that. 
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Rinze
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 20:10 Post subject: |
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Do double posts actually occur, like in real life, or is this a purely theoretical discussion? I really don't see many of them.
| Spoiler: | Merging can be done in many ways, like a binary merge with or/and/xor, I could treat both posts as sets of words and remove duplicates, or alternate letter by letter, word by word, line by line, sentence by sentence, etc. |
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Horrordee
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 20:39 Post subject: |
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cool idea, i vote yes.
never seen it anywhere else though. only prob would be if you WANT to bump a thread for whatever reason... lol
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lhzr
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 20:42 Post subject: |
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i voted no. if you can't figure out how to use the edit button, you shouldn't be using the internetz
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 20:56 Post subject: |
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The idea is not how to use it, but why use it, when you can have a much easier way of replying a few posts? Also, double posts occur from time to time, and not everyone seems to notice they can delete their multiple posts...
| Spoiler: | | Rinze wrote: | | Merging can be done in many ways, like a binary merge with or/and/xor, I could treat both posts as sets of words and remove duplicates, or alternate letter by letter, word by word, line by line, sentence by sentence, etc. |
Haha, so I was right. |
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| Posted: Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 21:33 Post subject: |
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Or you double post and then someone posts after you, and you can't delete your double post. I voted yes. It's never a bad idea for forum to 'grow' in capabilities...
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 30th Apr 2009 00:44 Post subject: |
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So any chance of this being implemented?
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Rinze
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| Posted: Thu, 30th Apr 2009 02:52 Post subject: |
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No. I checked the database, and double posts are more often intended than they are a mistake.
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