"automerge doubleposts"

[CapnZapp]

What's up with this?

Aren't users allowed to post more than once in a row in any given subject?

Can I turn this off? I understand that avoiding double posts is nice - but shouldn't the function first check so that the text is indeed identical in both posts first!!?

 

[Blackrat]

The answers are here :
http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?t=233809

 

[Plane Sailing]

In most instances where someone posts several replies in a thread one after another they could equally well have put it all in one post. The number of instances where it would prove problematic is very tiny in comparison to the number of headaches it resolves for us.

Regards

 

[CapnZapp]

But does the code still delete copies of the same message?

 

[CapnZapp]

Apparently not. (I just tried to post the exact same message twice)

In this case I'm getting an error screenie (see attached) instead.

So, could I at least ask you to modify the message?

After all, your new function isn't automerging doubleposts, it's merging two completely ordinary and valid posts from the same author.

 

[CapnZapp]

And, to my amazement, that post of mine didn't get automerged...? Was that because of the presence of the attachement...?

Still coming to grips with this...

 

[Darkness]

And, to my amazement, that post of mine didn't get automerged...? Was that because of the presence of the attachement...?

I'll test it.

 

[Darkness]

Yep, looks like auto-merge has vulnerability: attachments.

 

[Jdvn1]

But does the code still delete copies of the same message?

The purpose isn't to get rid of doubleposts, or to get rid of two posts that say the same thing.

 

[el-remmen]

In most instances where someone posts several replies in a thread one after another they could equally well have put it all in one post. The number of instances where it would prove problematic is very tiny in comparison to the number of headaches it resolves for us.

Regards

Headaches?

I don't remember double-post ever causing anything but the slightest and occasionally amusing inconvenience. Can you detail how double-post ever caused a "headache"?

Personally, I see this feature as potentially really annoying in the story hour forum, more annoyance than a double-post ever caused me, anyway. . .