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Title: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: Bruce on April 21, 2012, 05:58:32 PM: I discovered something this morning. If you type out a post and click submit, most times it goes through fine and it posts.

If someone else posts while you were typing, it gives you a message "another reply was posted and you can review your post".

Either way you are fine.

BUT, I found out the hard way that if you happened to click "submit" EXACTLY when someone else submits theirs, then yours just vanishes!

And by Murphy's Law, this tends to happen when you have just typed out a long reply (this happened to me) and I had to retype the whole reply!

So now, before I click "submit" I use "Control A" which selects all the text, and then I copy it, and that way if it does vanish, I can paste it in to a new reply.

Bruce
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: Juli on April 21, 2012, 06:28:55 PM: I do the same thing (copy text) before posting as I have had long posts vanish. No idea why it happens but it does.

Juli
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: holiday on April 21, 2012, 08:55:53 PM: Same here, and I cannot explain why.
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: CSM on April 21, 2012, 11:14:13 PM: I wish some peoples' posts would vanish sometimes ;D
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: Ari on April 21, 2012, 11:18:27 PM: before I read your post Chris I was GOING to say I wish my posts would disappear sometimes (take this one for example).
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: CSM on April 21, 2012, 11:22:54 PM: Quote from: Ari on April 21, 2012, 11:18:27 PM
before I read your post Chris I was GOING to say I wish my posts would disappear sometimes (take this one for example).

Just to be clear, your posts were not those I was referencing mate ;)
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: kovacs01 on April 22, 2012, 03:57:42 AM: Interesting you ask that Bruce. I dont think it has to do with someone else replying. I replied to something last night and it was gone this morning. I thought I must have just not hit post or something until I read this. It had never happened to me before, and I am pretty sure there was not anyone else in that thread when I was.
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: archie leach on April 22, 2012, 08:20:29 AM: Quote from: kovacs01 on April 22, 2012, 03:57:42 AM
Interesting you ask that Bruce. I dont think it has to do with someone else replying. I replied to something last night and it was gone this morning. I thought I must have just not hit post or something until I read this. It had never happened to me before, and I am pretty sure there was not anyone else in that thread when I was.

It happened to me last night also. I was the 1st to respond to the guy who bought two Last Crusades and was screwed over on the first purchase...
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: Ari on April 22, 2012, 08:24:41 AM: nothing
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: Ari on April 22, 2012, 08:24:59 AM: strange
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: Ari on April 22, 2012, 08:25:19 AM: happens
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Post by: Ari on April 22, 2012, 08:25:34 AM: when
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Post by: Ari on April 22, 2012, 08:25:46 AM: I
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Post by: Ari on April 22, 2012, 08:26:02 AM: post
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: CSM on April 22, 2012, 11:58:41 AM: Quote from: Ari on April 22, 2012, 08:26:02 AM
post

That's because the APF ghosts in the machine know about and fear NSFGE
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: Ari on April 22, 2012, 12:11:08 PM: COOL!
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: Bruce on April 22, 2012, 12:34:16 PM: It might be APF's subtle way of discouraging long posts!

Bruce
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: brude on April 22, 2012, 01:14:18 PM: Some of my gifs and naughty pics disappear, but then again I am a hot-linking bastard and must curb my indiscretions. wynk
Title: Re: Ever have a problem with a disappearing post (you write it and it vanishes)?
Post by: paul waines on April 22, 2012, 03:13:32 PM: This has just been happening to me, it is as though you are on a timer... I have never had any problems before, but trying to post some photo's has took me over an hour as the posts kept getting wiped off, and this happened about 10-12 times in the last hour....??