Have you ever written the same post twice?
By Joanie
@Freelanzer (10782)
Canada
March 8, 2018 1:53pm CST
Have you ever published a duplicate post forgetting that you already posted it?.
I find it is not easy to check all my published posts on MYlot over the years. I do not keep a copy of most of my posts and I wish there was an archive of all the posts on Mylot where I can go to get a copy for my records.
If you don't remember what you wrote, or don't keep a list of posts, it is possible to publish a duplicate post or a similar one.
Do you have all your posts saved on your computer?
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15 responses
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Mar 18
i am still in the process of finishing the list of my discussions like what i did with bubblews before. and yes, there are times that i can repeat a discussion i have already posted, but in a different manner.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
10 Mar 18
I want to do the same, keep a list of my posts if I can find them all.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Mar 18
@Freelanzer why don't you just scroll so you can copy the links?
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
8 Mar 18
No, I do not save on computer. I have hard copies of articles I care about saving.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
8 Mar 18
I do not except maybe a draft but I have been thinking I should keep an inventory anyway but that is a huge task to go back and do that.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
9 Mar 18
When we have many posts it will be hard to scroll through them all to check. I think that is why some people delete their posts and only keep on file a few.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
10 Mar 18
@Freelanzer I have noticed that some people do. However, if we leave them, sometimes new people read them and we get new comments on old posts and some are revived.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
10 Mar 18
I didn't even know you could delete your posts. That's an idea.
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
16 Apr 18
I've saved my poetry and my one short writing, that's all. The rest of my posts, don't actually mean anything to me. Have I duplicated a post? Probably, yes I have.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
16 Apr 18
I guess for the short clips we sometimes write there is no point in saving them and I don't but it is nice to know I can still access them and delete if I want to
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
16 Apr 18
@Freelanzer Yes, it's good to know we can delete them, if we decide to.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
21 Aug 18
I am sure it happens more often than we realize
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@porwest (112746)
• United States
24 Aug 18
@Freelanzer I am sure it does as well.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
9 Mar 18
i've been here 11 years.i wouldn't doubt if i had at some point without meaning to.a lot of the same things still piss me off.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
10 Mar 18
It could happen especially if you have been here for awhile with hundreds of posts
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
10 Mar 18
I don't save either but I hope to start doing that.
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@moffittjc (128827)
• Gainesville, Florida
11 Mar 18
I don't save any of my posts when I write them, so it's entirely possible that I could potentially write about a topic all over again, not realizing that I already wrote about it before.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
12 Mar 18
I don't save either and it would take awhile to scrool through all my previous discussions.
@JudyEv (381810)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Mar 18
I always write on Word then copy and paste. Sometimes I need to do some research in the middle of writing or it gets too long so I edit it and make it a bit shorter. Even so, once a Word file gets to 40 odd pages I start a new one and with over 1,000 posts that's still a lot of files to wade through. And if I think I've written something twice, I go searching for tags I might have used. I find the tags really useful in that way.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
8 Mar 18
Never thought about using tags but that still means I would need to keep a record. You are very organized, I am working on getting there someday.
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@JudyEv (381810)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Mar 18
@Freelanzer I don't think you would need to keep a record really. If you use relevant tags hopefully you would some up with the post you want.
@Raj7779 (3669)
• Canada
8 Mar 18
No I don't have any of the post saved in my computer and I don't think I have posted the same post twice may be the same topic but not the content.the post like good morning,etc.may have same title so we can have the multiple post on the same topic.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
8 Mar 18
I am sure it happens and I know I probably did but its all good.
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@Lignitecityabishek96 (7116)
• Cuddalore, India
8 Mar 18
no i don't have any copy of those
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
8 Mar 18
I guess there isn't an issue because I am sure I just might have done a duplicate once in awhile.
