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Hey I got one now

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...and for your next trick, can you remember how you did it? For example, were you already automatically subscribed before posting. Were you using separate windows - one of which pre-dated the auto-subscription or was used to subscribe manually and separately from posting. I suppose different skins or non-standard URLs might make a difference to whether the system recognises a duplicate at the addition stage.

The thread is one of those about surviving family parties. I subscribed to the page before this thread was created, so it's an auto subscription as far as I'm concerned.

So can you remember when it became a duplicate? The other 3 people in that thread only have one copy.

It was a duplicate from the moment I first noticed it, which was about 10 minutes before I posted here with my, "Hey I got one too" message.

I've just unsubscribed and resubscribed to that thread, and I'm now back down to one subscription.

So none of the other threads duplicated themselves at you?

I've got a TRIPLE

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I've worked out how to do it

When whacking the 'click here to subscribe to this conversation' link. Keep whacking it whilst the page saying 'you have just subscribed to conversation xyz' loads.

By doing that I ended up with six subscriptions to the above Deckchairs on the Titanic conversation

That sounds remarkably like the long previous suggestion that it is a server synchronisation problem due to site slowness.

Oh and I've just realised what the likely response will be - yet another button/link which says "do not press this button again". The annoying thing about the one to update entries is that it activates this mode without actually successfully sending off the new copy of the article. I now open another window to check since I discovered it was an untrustworthy fish.