Duplicate questions being asked

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Duplicate questions being asked

5.42K viewsNovember 18, 2015Issues

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Michael Glass 2 Posted October 31, 2015

There should be a failsafe to stop a user from asking the exact same question multiple times. Due to the slow speed it takes from the time the user presses the ‘post question’ button to it being lodged, I have found many times where a user has pressed the button multiple times resulting in the same question being asked (up to 20 times).

There needs to be a way so that if the user asks exactly the same question they get an error popup.

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score 1 · Answer 1 · 2015-11-18T17:00:27+00:00

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Dima Stefantsov 1.58K Posted November 18, 2015 1 Comment

There is a simple solution for that: Disable button after it’s been pressed, Enable it only after ajax returned “failed”.

Let the users click disabled button all they want. Showing error messages is so previous century.

Rahul Aryan commented November 18, 2015

This has been already solved. Since 2.4 AnsPress will send specific triggers using header. So now if ajax response is not valid JSON then further action will happen without any interruption.

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2015-11-01T05:06:58+00:00

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Rahul Aryan 30.95K Posted October 31, 2015 1 Comment

Yes interesting idea. This will be implemented soon.

Michael Glass commented October 31, 2015

This is what prompted me to let you know – http://www.backpackertravel.org/community/questions/

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