John, was it this error?

"Sorry! The
administrator has specified that users can only post one message every 60 seconds."

Nope, sorry.

Here's a very recent post by LGJ that had the duplicated text problem:
https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...79#post1200479

John

Kobiashi asked LGJ to delete the above post because the problem happened to Kobiashi again in the same thread here:
https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...25#post1200525

Went right over John's head Burt.
Bill

Webmaster - I tried to reply to Bill's message. I hit the quote button, then typed my message:

"Bill,
Enlighten me, please.

Thanks,
John"

Then I hit submit.
This is the message that came up:

"vBulletin Message

No thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster"


--John

John:
While I could be wrong, I believe that is a phantom error message relating to "post whores" that used to haunt this site.
Now we only have "post length whores":lurk:

Bill

Thanks Bill. I figured the message 01 XLT SPort refered to was related to parameters put in place by the webmaster to prevent double posts when members accidently click the "submit" button more than once.

It's all good. :thumbsup:

John

Steve, please see my 3 posts in This Thread. It is not happening only when you edit a post, it seems to happen if you quote someone and your post is over a certain limit.

Thanks

Can someone please post detailed, step-by-step directions (not an example) on exactly how to duplicate this problem so I can forward that to the developers of the forum?

Not sure if this is what your looking for Steve but I will give it a shot. From my “little” testing the problem seems to occur anytime the character count is in the neighborhood of 2000 characters or above, including text automatically inserted by the forum (software) itself.

(Example: when you edit a post it states at the bottom when it was edited etc and that text is automatically inserted)

I would say if a post has less then 2000 characters there is no problem. When it is over 2000 is when the problem occurs. There seems to be a threshold as to the exact number of characters it takes to cause the problem. One time could be after 2000 characters, and the next time you can go up to 2100 characters before a problem. The number does not seem like an absolute.

Perhaps one way to post a question in the development forum would be to state something to the effect of “When someone tries to post something with approx. 2200 characters or more a problem occurs after submitting the post to the forum”

I used the number 2200 because that should guarantee the problem that we are seeing here.

Not sure how best to describe the problem except for duplicating lines of text at random.

Edit
I should have added it does not seem to matter if it is completely typed out in the forum itself or pasted from another source such as Word…

That's heading in the direction of what I need, but not quite enough.

What I need is actual steps to take to recreate the problem:

1) Create post with 2200 characters.
2) Submit.
3) Edit post.
4) Submit.

Since some people have reported this happens on shorter posts AND on add or edits, I need at least one specific way to reproduce it.

Ok, that was actually A LOT easier to reproduce than I thought.

I created a Word doc with 1980 characters (including spaces) and copy/pasted it into Notepad, to make sure that control characters were not causing the problem. I then copy/pasted that into a new thread and POOF, the thread has 3,300+ characters!!

I contacted vBulletin support to see if they can figure out what might be the cause.

Hmm, I think I may have a bigger issue with this, and possibly the culprit. I tried adding a note to the templates to add a thread and a reply, to let people know there is a problem and the template itself duplicated, as if there were two site headers surrounding it...odd!!

Steve, I know you have your hands full but, there is another problem that may be a quick fix.

'Show Signature' is now ON by default.
It never was that way before and that wastes valuable resources doesn't it?

I'm afraid that it's not a quick fix. I "reverted" back to the original template for add/edit threads and now the application will not let me re-modify them without adding an addition header & footer. GRRRR!!