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Paper Roses

(7,473 posts)
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 03:31 PM Nov 2014

Do any other DU'ers note this happening?

I check DU many times every day. On almost all days, maybe every day, I see multiple posts of the same OP. Since I get up at the crack of dawn(yes, I have a kitty), I note that the same post appears many times during the AM. Not one of those 'oops' double clicks things, these are separate posts of the exact same things but the times are different by minutes or hours
Is this unusual or is my computer doing something funny.

Perhaps the poster has a way of duplicating their post. The reply and rec contents are different so I think they are repeats of the same post, seen at a later time by others.
Can someone explain?

I'm not sure this lasts all day as I am not on line as often after noon, back in the evenings.
If this is something unusual to me, I would be happy, starting tomorrow AM to post links to several of these same posts.
Just curious.
Thanks

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Do any other DU'ers note this happening? (Original Post) Paper Roses Nov 2014 OP
Not me. GeorgeGist Nov 2014 #1
sometimes the exact same article gets posted several times by different people steve2470 Nov 2014 #2
Same poster, different times. n/t Paper Roses Nov 2014 #3
ok, sometimes people will cross-post the same article to different forums steve2470 Nov 2014 #4
Maybe it's Earth Bound Misfit Nov 2014 #5
great pic lol ! nt steve2470 Nov 2014 #6

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
2. sometimes the exact same article gets posted several times by different people
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 04:41 PM
Nov 2014

Could this be what you're seeing ? The same article title ?

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
4. ok, sometimes people will cross-post the same article to different forums
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 05:58 PM
Nov 2014

For example, a science-related article could go in GD, the big Science forum and then Weather Watchers (if it was weather-related).

If that isn't the case, I would post this to Skinner in Ask the Administrators.

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