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Note that I did wind up posting it a second time, this time through the web interface

RBE uses bbPress's logic to check for duplicate forum topics.

When you post on the web, since you are an administrator, you are able to bypass this check.

When posting via RBE, bbPress does a logged-in user check for administrator privileges. Since RBE functions in a logged-out state, your topic will be checked for duplicates regardless of your administrator role.

For a workaround when posting duplicate topics via RBE, alter the body of the message slightly.

Another way to address this is to get bbPress to modify their bbp_check_for_duplicate() function to check against the post author instead of the logged-in user.

If you feel that we do not need to keep bbPress's logic of duplicate forum topics for RBE, then let me know and I'll see what I can do.

thanks, Ray. Just to confirm: it checks across groups, rather than for duplicate posts in a single group?

Changing the message a bit is a good workaround and I don't mind doing it.

Just to confirm: it checks across groups, rather than for duplicate posts in a single group?

Yes, the duplicate check is done across all group forums.

Changing the message a bit is a good workaround and I don't mind doing it.

This is only necessary when using RBE for now.

Just quoting myself here:

Another way to address this is to get bbPress to modify their bbp_check_for_duplicate() function to check against the post author instead of the logged-in user.

I created a bbPress ticket for making the bbp_check_for_duplicate() function less reliant on the current user context:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3186

We'll see what they say about this.

Thank you, Ray

Thanks for following up on this, Ray.