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Duplication of Posts

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Irritating little promotion

09/03/2011 2:17 pm

Sidney Webb

Sidney Webb

Location: South East England
Posts: 224

Is it the irritating little advertising box that homes into the cursor and forces the linkage to sites one does not choose to go to responsible for the increasing incidence of duplicate postings.

I've noticed a correlation to my own posts duplicating and the popup occuring close to the post button when pressed.

If the duplication issue is from another cause then perhaps it can be traced and fixed.

Either way, perhaps the little irritant can be done away with.

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Rick Campbell

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Location: Macclesfield CHESHIRE
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09/03/2011 3:02 pm

I like being an irritant,

However, it is darned frustrating not only with this darned duplication but also sometimes the IT won't allow what I've written to make it's way onto threads ( words to the effect of "Can't find page " "invalid html" or whatever ) especially after I've spell and typo checked it.

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Tom Lloyd

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09/03/2011 4:57 pm

I don't think the pop up box has anything to do with the duplicated posts. I think that happens when we moderate them (we do sometimes) and the system freezes so the moderater then clicks twice. Having said that, I agree the pop up box is irritating - although it has nothing to do with advertising - and will try to get it set to only appear if you click on the 'share' link rather than hovering over it.

On the invaild html point, I have raised this with our developers and we are continuing to try to find a solution, although this seems to be more difficult that you might have thought.

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Rick Campbell

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Location: Macclesfield CHESHIRE
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09/03/2011 5:00 pm

I appreciate the reply Tom as well as the efforts you are making.

Thank you.

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Sidney Webb

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11/03/2011 2:42 pm

When I asked: 'perhaps the little irritant can be done away with' I did not mean give him his own column on IH!

Thanks for looking into the box Tom.

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Rick Campbell

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11/03/2011 3:01 pm

I am impressed with that PSR except I am not sure "little" is the correct word.

I am not so sure that the 'opposition' (another oxymoron) would be doing much different than the current odious lot in power.

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