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This has been bugging me for quite sometime. Whenever i try posting an answer, i get a reply that my answer was "tried 3 times without success, servers are busy" error message. So i try posting it again. But when i open the same webpage in another tab, it shows my answer has been posted. And because of the error, my answer gets posted 2 times or more. I have to delete the repeated answer. Is there some way by which it could be detected the answer that is being posted is same as one posted already?
I am using FF5.0 and have a decent internet connection.
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Do you have any extensions installed? Webwashers, ad blockers? Any nasty firewalls?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I am using AdBlockPlus in mozilla. But that shouldn't interfere while posting answers. Isn't it?
Also this error doesn't pop up everytime. But when it comes, then it comes everytime i try to submit answer for the same question.
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One way to test is to disable AdBlock plus for a bit (or just for CodeProject) and see if that helps.
AdBlock Plus does "stuff" that's beyond my control. Let's at least start by reducing one variable 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I read your solution and also disabled AdBlocker for this website. But the error still popped up when i tried to answer to a question. Has this problem been reported by anyone else? or is it me only who is facing such problem.  I love answering questions.
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I have a tendancy of asking questions that don't get answered. It would be nice to have a counter on the questions to show how many times they've been looked at so we know that it has or has not been ignored.
thanks,
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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You mean like the box that is titled "Views"?
The best things in life are not things.
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Hahaha! 
edited: Richard, the OP hasn't posted any questions in Q&A yet, so I assume he means his messages in the different fora (200 currently).
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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Yes, I saw that, just another crazy mixed-up kid.
The best things in life are not things.
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I don't see any box titled "Views".
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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Richard means the "views"-box in Q&A, see here: Questions & Answers[^]
Since you said "questions and answers", Richard assumed you mean that section of CP, and so did I, till I visited your profile and saw, that you haven't posted in Q&A yet.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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On the main listings page there is a views box, but not while viewing the question itself (which I assume is what you'd like to see)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I actually posted my question in the Windows API forum, thinking that was the appropriate place to ask Windows API questions. Should I be redundant and post it in the questions section as well?
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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If you haven't tried the Quick Answers[^] system then yes, it would be valuable to me for you to try and provide whatever feedback you can.
Ultimately the forums are discussion forums where members can engage in long, hopefully rambling discussions on a topic. QA is meant to be purely questions and answers, no fluff.
As to your initial question about views, that's extremely difficult (not impossible, but heavy on the servers and misleading in results) because messages are shown up to 50 a page, and initially closed, so if a message appears on a page is it viewed or not? When it's opened? What if you set your forum mode to have all posts open? Are all 50 messages then instantly deemed "viewed"?
It's messy, so I've not attempted view numbers on discussion messages.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Michael Bergman wrote: Should I be redundant and post it in the questions section as well?
There are more folks answering in the Q/A forums, so yeah I'd do that if I were you.
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Michael Bergman wrote: Should I be redundant and post it in the questions section as well
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: yeah I'd do that if I were you
So you're telling OP to repost :P
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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Michael Bergman wrote: Should I be redundant and post it in the questions section as well?
NO
One or the other, but not both. This point is made several times in the various posting guidelines. As Chris says, the fora and Q+A are intended for different styles - discussion vs quick answer.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Looks like you're outvoted two to one.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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Weird. Just look how often "crosspost" appears in Q+A answers (or questions retitled by editors).
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Uhm, I had a look at your questions in Q&A, and guess what? There aren't any. You probably mean your messages in the different programming fora of CP?
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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So some coward downvoted my link. How lame is that?
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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And someone else voted you 5's. Idiot votes tend not to last very long. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Thank you. You are a prince among theives. 
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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Okay: so the menu header says "Questions & Answers", the menu that is under that says "All Message Boards", the title of that page refers to "Discussion Boards" and asks you to select a "Forum".
So please pardon me for selecting the wrong word/phrase out of so many to choose from.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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