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Same here.
Plus, since the message was a "sorry", I just pasted the ANSWER as a COMMENT (which didn't appear quite so "sorry")
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error while casting a column name[^]
when I update this answer,
1. and submit it, it was posted as new answer solution 2
2. it was showing error posting answer (some lines above solution in red lines) as below
We have tried to add your answer 3 times without success. Our servers are just a little overworked. Sorry.
so I re-click button to posting answer successfully and then I got 10 points 23 times = 230 point
may be I have click button 23 times but strange thing is entry in post as solution2 only not solution3,4...23,
In short for single solution I got 10 point 23 times
hope you understand what I say
so, please correct that and remove entries of 10 points which I got 23 times for single solution "error while casting a column name"
modified 7-Feb-13 3:16am.
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Same thing happened to me. I droped in here to post the same bug. I even have a screenshot too here[^]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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Same bug has been posted below. For now do not hit the button more than once.
..Go Green..
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Well, even if you hit the submit button only once, points can get awarded up to 3-4 times for one single answer.....
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Fred Flams wrote: Well, even if you hit the submit button only once, points can get awarded up to 3-4 times for one single answer
Hasn't happened to me yet. But if that's the case, CP staff need to do something really soon.
..Go Green..
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Has been happening to me for the last two hours.
I reckon I have tried to hit multiple times the submit button the frist it happened to me, and then I saw this serie of posts and resolved to hit the submit only once... and I get too many point awarded for one single hit..... I must have something like nearly 200 points too many on my reputation
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Oh that also explains me the reason for multiple posts for same answer. I recently saw it at couple of places.
I guess this particular scenario could be browser specific. I am using Firefox and haven't had any issue (not at least multiple rep points even clicking the submit once). I am sure CP team must be on it.
..Go Green..
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Guys, I am at the top of the QA Experts list right now and I don't think I've answered enough to be there. This has prompted me to take a look at my reputation (something I don't like doing) and I see that there are multiple entries for the same answer - answers where the server reported it was unsuccessful posting the answer, and yet my answer was there.
Could you please remove the rogue points from my account please? They haven't been earned and I don't want this to overshadow the sterling work that others are doing answering questions in there. If I don't deserve to appear in the list because of legitimate replies, then I shouldn't be there.
Hmmm. It seems that this is one case where I do care about the points. Who knew that too many points would be the thing that upset me?
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You are that type of guy who hands the extra money back when the change is not correct, aren't you ? 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Yup. I've even gone back to a shop to return a packet of biscuits that had been packed into my bag but obviously belonged to the person who'd been at the till before me. I hadn't paid for them so they weren't mine.
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If I'd go back into a shop to return an unpaid item packed into my bag, they would put me in jail thinking I had stolen it.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Same here, the points capture system seems to be a little wayward at the moment.
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Just checked my recent points list and can confirm the same. One answer posted just once and the points registered 8 times.
The good news however is that email notification are coming through really fast now. Keep up the good work and all that.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I have discovered how the people in Q&A who are amassing ridiculous points per question answered are doing it.
They are simply hitting the Submit Solution button over and over again when submitting an answer. The answer only gets posted once, but they get +10 rep points for each click. I just tried it on this[^] question and was able to garner 48 +10 rep point records.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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That's a great spot but I'm not sure it's the whole answer. I answered an old question of Nagy's from October I think on the unanswered C++ list and got 200 points for it a couple of days ago. No idea why and I certainly didn't hit Submit more than once. Anyway I enjoyed my brief forray onto the CP most useful person list 
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I wonder if the same happy-clickey-finger issue happens on the voting buttons as well, in which case you could get a bunch of upvotes with only the one vote appearing on the answer.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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If so they you should just have recieved a neat pile of votes for your last post here courtesy of the Faithfull Fast Finger(tm)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Just the 1 upvote there.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Then the mystery deepens, or the Finger's just not up to job. Either way I can only suggest that Mr Graus perhaps do some micro surgery on Bob's brain to go after a particular incident like the one I mentioned or your trial and see what happened. If I have to sacrifice a couple of hundred points for the greater good and all that I'm sure I'll get over it 
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Marcus Kramer wrote: I wonder if the same happy-clickey-finger issue happens on the voting buttons as wel
Nopes. I recently observed that the answer acceptance by a high rep is also multiple of 25 and not just 25 that we generally see in our history (because of low rep guys asking and marking it solved.) Saying this, just like other places, for platinum member marking it solved has a multipler 8 to it leading to 200 points in a go.
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What about when just posting regular messages? Consider this a test of that.
[EDIT]Nope.[/EDIT]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Maybe they are using JavaScript to automate the task?
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I attempted to do this with a short comment, but there is no way I can click more than once before the comment is submitted and the button is "gone".
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I attempted to do this while editing this[^] question. It's funny, I clicked like a crazy person on that Submit button, but only two of the clicks resulted in points, yet it says "v16" next to the edit information...
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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