Alter "bereits eingegeben (already registered[exp?])"
I live in a comparatively small town and have more or less regularly the case that I get a note I already registered. I get an error message telling me that I probably made a mistake.
My suggestion is just to remove that sentence that carries no infromation whatsoever anyway.
The advanced solution would be to load the serials of the note and highlight the coincidence which would make it clear to me that I got a note back.
Of course it is clear to me that these can't count as "hit".
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Anonymous
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I would like to see the behaviour/change suggested by Anonymous a bit changed:
If the note has already been inserted less than - let's say - 6 hours ago: keep the current behaviour (do not insert the note into the database a second time but give the error message)
If the note has been inserted earlier: do not reject but accept with a special remark as suggested above.
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googlejaps
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Do you mean that the site should color the entry field red (or another color to distinguish a difference) when you enter an already entered note?
If this would be implemented this would be a very huge impact on the site/server, because then for every entered note a search must be performed to determine if this is a re-entered note or not. This would lead to an additional 30-50 thousand searches a day. That's a lot of performance loss.
Maybe it's better that there will be two messages when you re-enter a note:
"You have already entered this note on 2011-11-30 10:35:09. You are probably making a mistake."
and:
"You have already entered this note on 2011-01-12 11:20:43. This might be a boomerang note."The first one can be displayed when you re-enter a note within 1 (or 2 or 3) months after the first entry, the second one can be displayed when you re-enter a note more than 1 (or 2 or 3) months after the first entry.
