Why are there so many duplicate posts here?

A lot of reasons for this, none of them good, but just live with it.

What was your question?

Maybe I should start a thread and find out.

and around

you don't see their posts

I'm pretty sure people have put me on ignore, but if they did, I ignored it

It's probably only a matter of time before we see posts titled, "Bernie Sanders will be in his Senate office in the Dirksen Building from 8:00 to 8:45 this morning. He will order coffee with milk and no sugar, and make a few profound, predictable pronouncements!!"

if one is found

Bernie Sanders takes on Big Sugar! Donkees

First reply would be: But he supports the barbaric cattle industry and low wage coffee bean pickers! <- Probably NCTraveler



Have some fun along the way, folks.

the posts. It's kind of amusing.

When a member ONLY posts about one subject, it's either a case of a one-track mind or a paid trouble-blogger. We all see the posts from dormant members who awake from their suspended animation the instant there is an OP with any criticism of GMO foods or Monsanto in general. I appreciate that some people think Sanders has something to contribute to the public discourse, but a few think that ONLY Sanders has something to contribute, and that statements or actions of others are of little consequence. Bernie said this, Bernie did that, Bernie U Akbar. It almost reminds me of the scene in the film "Inside Man," where the hostage takers inside the bank played a continuous tape of speeches of Enver Hoxha to confuse the eavesdropping cops.

I am considering starting a thread on this very same topic.

...it's what I do. Makes me happy. Relax.

here:

Mustache guy out, impeachment lawyer in

and the same topic kept getting added by other posters for hours after the initial story broke.

I can see how someone might miss seeing that there was already an open topic, so maybe there be a "duplicate" button that would let the OP or a monitor delete the post

If one does and sees that what they're about to post is already up then perhaps they should comment to kick it back to the top of the forum. But then that's just my opinion.

We've got some started with an existing one from hours or a day ago right below it.

It's the twitterization of DU posting. "My take is THE hot take"

The one forum where it rarely occurs is LBN because multiple posts will be flushed.

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IMHO, there are more people into posting stuff than reading and discussing stuff.

I remember when the first page moved quite rapidly. Now an op might only have 40 or so posts, but it will still languish on the first page for over a day. Du seems to have slowed way down, and I have not been here that long.

This is something I’ve noticed over time recently.

There’ve been a couple OPs about it.

that I want to post, but a few times someone beat me to it, or posted it within three minutes of my post.

And, other times, I have posted an article and got zero comments .... then the same article is posted by someone else an hour later and gets 25 comments!

Kinda makes me feel insignificant sometimes ............

... about every month to month and a half, and once it got over 50 responses, and the other times 10 or less.

there were a gazillion of em!