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posted 3 times: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tocs3

earlier, different user, posted the same thing 6 times: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whiplash451

..someone working up a new "spam to HN" script?

I am the poster that posted this a bunch of times. I kept getting a (I do not remember now exactly) "bad gateway" message when submitting the post. I was assuming it was not getting through. When I noticed I was able to delete one of the extra posts but not the others.

I am no sure what exactly I was doing wrong (Except I should check better if the post got through).

Edit: One typo above. Also, this question is less about bare survival and more about comfort for someone a little less able to cope. A lot of good and interesting suggestion. Thank you everyone.

Perhaps that explains the other multiple poster, too; thank you for the context.

That's weird! I've deleted the other posts now. Sorry, all.

There was a cloudflare error while posting which triggered lots of folks to repost lots of things. The error came up after the post was saved, though.

that explains observations better, thank you

Hmm do you know of other cases of this that I could look into?

> Hmm do you know of other cases of this that I could look into?

No clue. What happened was...

i had noticed that a surprising number of people were posting the same things 2-3 times and assumed it was due to some non-obvious error. Then i posted something (must have been /item?id=38989363) and, indeed, got a CloudFlare error. My instinct was to tap Back and Submit again but the number of repeated posts i'd noticed earlier tipped me off not to. Instead i visited /newest and there was my post, despite the CloudFlare error.

FWIW I saw the Cloudflare error a few times whilst attempting a comment, though it seems to not have created dupes:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002310>

(Sort of an anti-example of the problem, people's experiences may have varied.)

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