OMG , do not hit the back button or refresh in the middle of writing a post.

it happened to me but with submit button. the response or discussion would be posted unfinished so I had to either post additional comment or if it was a discussion I had to wait until someone responded and I would add the rest of the discussion as a comment I don't think you can get it back, if you hit submit then it's posted if you hit anything else it will be gone that's what usually happens

Even after almost three years here I am still losing posts. I sit with my keyboard on my knees and sometimes it slips and I don't know what I am doing. I am hitting buttons everywhere. Sometimes, I lose myLot and not just my post. It is very irritating when I have posted a long response and then it just vanishes. I try to remember now to copy my post before submitting it as when I lose it, I sometimes just don't bother to type it all out again.