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I occasionally run through the first reviews issued by brand-new members to see if they're trying to conceal advertising and I'm seeing a lot of duplicate posts - sometimes as many as 4 or 5 - of the same reviews. They are probably not used to the slight delay after pushing the "post" button and so are hitting it multiple times? It's a little concerning whent these duplicates cluttering up the travel pages. Here's a new member (today) who has 3 of the same review: Barcelona by Batsheva7 And here's another member who evidently tried to edit a first posting but ended up with two reviews containing nearly identical info: Pickpockets, Barcelona As we're seeing a lot of hit-and-runs doing this lately, would there be any way to prevent double/triple/quadruple/etc. postings by either issuing a "your post is loading" message after the post button is pressed or make it otherwise impossible to post more than once in, say, 60 seconds? Something like this wouldn't help the member who posted an edit without removing the first version but it would help keep the clutter down where the other poster's triple-whammy is concerned.
That would take some programming on the VT end and need some "interesting" logic in order to avoid valid posts. Still the thought of only one post from the same member in "N" seconds might help those that either hit enter multiple times because IE (or other browser) didn't appear to respond the first time. That said I've notice that IE of late tends to have that anoying habit of not really responding as quickly as I expect it to. Guess I'll have to increase my 14MB connection to something faster.
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LOL, I'm a tech *** so I expected it would be difficult to impossible but thought I'd raise the question.
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Brings up the same request/wish of a 'Review' or 'Edit' button, like in this 'You Are Answering' page, 'Preview Answer'.
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An easier solution (for us, not the VT staff or servers) would be "garbage collection". Write a program that searches entries in the data base of tips. When it discovers two tips that are from the same person and are identical (including photos, if any), it deletes the one that has no ratings, or if both have the same ratings, deletes one arbitrarily. I cannot think of any justification for a single member to have two identical tips with the same photos and ratings...can any of you think of a reason why the member would object to an auto-deletion of the duplicate? The nice thing about this is that this will happen in the background, and VT members won't have to go clean it up. And the search through the database is not as monstrous as it sounds, because you will start with a member name first, and search only tips for that member which are duplicates. Since most members don't have that many tips, the search will actually be pretty fast for most members... Bill
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