As some of my commenters may have noticed, the ScienceBlogs server has been acting a bit strangely, often being really slow to post comments and sometimes even producing error messages. This has led to some double and even triple posts of comments, as readers understandably try to repost something after getting an error or when it appears that the server's hung up.
Try to resist the temptation. At the very least, before trying to repost, reload the page with the relevant post and make sure that your comment didn't already show up. That will help cut down on the number of double comments, not to mention cut down the amount of time I have to spend deleting double and triple comments.
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This happened to me on Pharyngula, and refreshing didn't work, no new comments showed until about 50 had been posted (including several of my comment). So that tactic doesn't necessarily work for this problem.
"This has led to some double and even triple posts of comments, as readers understandably try to repost something after getting an error or when it appears that the server's hung up."
Are you sure they're not just practicing for the 500,000th Comment Contest?