Another officer named Max and 99 beat me to it!

[+Max and 99]

I was coming home from a trip today, and my navigation duties were completed so I checked my email and went to review a waymark. I'm checking the little map and it looks good. I checked the photos and they look good. I read the description and it looks good. I type up a short response and click accept. Then I got this message, which I have never seen before. Curious as to which officer was reviewing the waymark the same time as I was, I clicked on newest waymarks and looked at it. The other approving officer was me! What a strange message. 

 

Edited October 24, 2021 by Max and 99

[+Alfouine]

It has happened to me few times, for an unknown reason he validates twice the waymark, so the second time it's alreadey approved.

May be because we have time to click twice on accept waymark button and the second click is considered

[+FamilieFrohne]

14 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

The other approving officer was me! What a strange message.

From a technical point of view totally understandable: If you double click a button that does not force a posting of the contents and an immediate reload of the page the second click is buffered and sent after the first click callback returns. This is a default with most buttons that define a "onClick"-Event.

 

Unfortunatly successfully handling a disable/enable of the button by callback-functions adds a lot of complexity to the callback and if done wrong it could lead to a page malfunctioning. So I don't think that this behaviour is on the top list to fix ...

[+ScroogieII]

Well, Max and 99, as seen above, you're not alone in having experienced this. When it has happened to me it has almost universally been the result of an avid officer's reviewing a Waymark simultaneously with my review,  culminating in their clicking the appropriate button milliseconds prior to my click.. It will usually be no big deal, BUT when it occurs following a long, explanatory and excursive explanation for my denial of a submission it can tend to grate a bit.

 

I'm not blessed with the depth of knowledge of the workings of HTML as is Erik, but his explanation seems quite reasonable to me. My unintentional double clicks have, on occasion, resulted in unanticipated results, 'tis true, though they've also, as often as not, resulted in no discernable effect, whether it be adverse, beneficial or benign.

Keith

Edited October 26, 2021 by wayfrog
small edit

[+The Snowdog]

You must have missed it by that much...