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[davelinde]

Is it just me... every time I come back to this forum after any time away I will do a "reply". I write up my post, look at the buttons, and hit the "reply" button again. It wipes out everything I'd just written and give me a new blank form.

I know why the forum is coded with the reply button still visible below a quick reply... but honestly the vBulletin folks should do the work and get RID of the reply button when a reply is being written! I surely do understand the difference between a "reply" and a "submit"... but the fact that I make the same error each time means it's just not obvious in the layout.

btw - I also wonder how many people hit reply twice and think they hit reply then submit and come here saying they cannot reply or post?

 

[2010augusta]

I done it a few times, I just learned from my mistake and try not to repeat them.

 

[SJH]

Is it just me... every time I come back to this forum after any time away I will do a "reply". I write up my post, look at the buttons, and hit the "reply" button again. It wipes out everything I'd just written and give me a new blank form.

Me too! I always do that on this forum format! I thought it was just me!

 

[Treeban]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who gets frustrated with this problem. I'm really not sure why they even have that "reply to thread" button - you're right, it just wipes the slate clean.

 

[ChopperBill]

Add me to the "stupid" group! Several time I thought my post was deleted because it disappeared. Thought it was strange because my posts are NEVER controversial or out of line. he he. Finally came to the conclusion that I was replying and not posting. This forum is not alone on this "problem"

 

[Ray LeTourneau]

I don't regularly use any other forum so I don't have any problems using this forum.I'm used to it. Of course it helps that I spend a few hours on it every day. I just look at that button as an optional way to reply to a thread/post.

 

[boatdoc]

Add me to the "stupid" group! Several time I thought my post was deleted because it disappeared. Thought it was strange because my posts are NEVER controversial or out of line. he he. Finally came to the conclusion that I was replying and not posting. This forum is not alone on this "problem"

Bill, I don't consider either of us stupid, it's just a B/S STUPID way of doing posting. I've done it more than once and a couple of the posts were long, hen-pecked posts that I said the heck with it and didn't repost.

 

[ChopperBill]

Bill, I don't consider either of us stupid, it's just a B/S STUPID way of doing posting. I've done it more than once and a couple of the posts were long, hen-pecked posts that I said the heck with it and didn't repost.

On thing I have learned is that if I have a long winded post I am about to compose I write it on Word Pad then cut and paste it on the forums. Like you I have made long posts that "disapeared". Doing the Work Pad thing cuts down on the agrivation.

 

[Moose]

Me too. I was worried I may have lost something in cyberspace. Now I know I did! LOL

 

[Hoosier Wolverine]

The first time it happened to me, I thought perhaps my post would appear on the thread later. I was reluctant to write it again lest it become a double post. Thought I was the only one who didn't understand.