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Here’s an MT hack that will prevent double comment posts.
[saw it at Lisa's]

(You can see the comment thread in the last post, but that Javascript method of disabling the button will not work - so this is rather timely!) :D

This entry was posted on Monday, April 14th, 2003 at 8:50 am and is filed under MT hacks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

8 Responses to “prevent duplicate comments”

  1. Michael Hanscom Says:
    April 14th, 2003 at 2:09 pm

    I’ve noticed that on ScriptyGoddess, you have a ‘please wait’ page that pops up while the comment is being posted. Is there a tip for that on here anywhere? I poked around a bit, but didn’t come up with anything, and that might work just as well for my particular case.

  2. Jennifer Says:
    April 14th, 2003 at 3:01 pm

    Michael - that’s because of the “subscribe to comments” script I have running. That script can be found here.

  3. rickie beth Says:
    April 14th, 2003 at 4:41 pm

    I don’t use MT, but I have a problem commenting on MT blogs — my browser hangs and the comment ends up being posted three or four times, even though I only hit ‘post’ once. Hopefully everyone using MT will install this hack, and keep me from looking foolish!! :D

  4. Neurotic Fishbowl Says:
    April 16th, 2003 at 1:01 am Repeating Comments
    I meant to post this the other day, but it totally slipped my mind. Thanks to Scripty Goddess, I found

  5. Neil's World Says:
    April 16th, 2003 at 3:43 am No more duping!
    Kymberlie, I owe you one. She’s just linked to an article on ScriptyGoddess which links to this article which explains a hack for Movable Type to force comments to only appear once, even if they are submitted several times. This…

  6. ***Dave Does the Blog Says:
    April 25th, 2003 at 10:11 pm Some sort of an echo in here …
    By and large, I’ve eschewed MT hacks. Not plug-ins, ’cause that’s cool. But things that require me to go in…

  7. UtterlyBoring.com Says:
    October 5th, 2003 at 6:35 pm OK, the comment spam is starting to get to me
    I’ve been getting a pile of stupid comments on the site, many of them loaded with URLs for casinos, male enhancement, among other crap. I don’t want to have to…

  8. Couchblog Says:
    October 12th, 2003 at 11:48 am Avoiding Duplicate Comments
    Since I added the notice not to click the post button several times when transmitting a comment here, the situation