Writing a reply... oops, gone!

It had happened to me a lot of time already. I guess I have no choice but to rewrite it again. Of course, I may have to change words to make it shorter because sometimes I don't have enough time. But you are above the 500th mark now, you can use the copy and paste privilege. I don't have it yet so I think I have to suffer those disappearing responses.

I hate that. I usually give up. I've tried to rewrite those and never can get the feeling I had in the original. Drives me crazy. I cannot wait till I can copy and paste in here man it's long overdue!!! I have found a few tricks but I cannot copy a whole posting that is so many lines long and that I put so much effort into typing!!! And there is no way to edit anything you post here anyway! So annoying, in fact, this is my only complaint with MyLot.

This has happened to me in the past more times than I care to remember and it drives me crazy! I now have a habit of copying my posts before I submit them just in case! In the last few days there have also been some power failures in my building and in all cases everything went off right in the middle of me typing something. This is obviously far more rare but just as frustrating! lol.

oh i hate when this happens! it is such a drag to have to try and think of what i wrote in the first response and i know that the second response is never the same as the first.

This used to happen to me TOO often- until I was able to copy and paste- now when I know my response is going to be lengthy- I type it in WORD first- then copy it into the discussion :) When it did happen to me I would get so aggravated that I don't even try to write it again- because as y ou said- I just don't feel it would turn out the same :(

YES...it just have happened again to me a while ago. I seldom get this mood to write lengthy reply and I was just doing exactly that a while ago and kaboom...my internet connection played up again. It is very annoying but what can you do really? Bang your head onto your monitor? (LOL) Just see if you can recall at least the flow of thoughts in your reply and re-write it again. If you can't, then maybe try replying in another way..you know, play around with your words while keeping the sense intact. If you've lost all your thoughts and cannot gather back your wits again anymore...then maybe just log out and have a cup of tea/coffee or whatever drink that will relax you a bit. That might bring your mood back and then, you can start fresh again.

Oh yeah. This is something i really hate. Sometimes I'm blogging something really fun and interesting and then suddenly boom. It is deleted.hehe and I cant write it again.

Oh yes, this has happened to me before. On here and other places. It is so frustrating when I write a long, well thought out post and then submit it and my internet goes out for a few minutes, or just long enough to suck my post into thin air. At first I feel like throwing my laptop across the room. But I try to chill, take a break if I need. Then I usually go ahead and post again, but maybe not exactly the same as I originally did, or maybe I write the same thing but actually end up writing less by saying things a little differently. But yea, when this happens I get so mad! :D

Frankly, it's been like this for quite some time now here in mylot. I just don't know if it is due to some connection problems or server error because I'm not so knowledgeable with troubleshooting or stuff like these. But just like you said, it's very irritating and more often, I lose my interest in replying to discussions eventually. After some situations like these, I've come to a solution everytime I encounter this. Whenever I get disconnected, I make sure that I do copy my response before finally hitting the 'post response' option. This way, I still could paste my reply and proceed with responding to other discussions. But just this morning, I used another computer here in the office and tried sending an e-mail message to the branch accountants in different locations through yahoo mail. I was not anticipating that there will be any problem so I proceeded with the usual process, not trying to copy my long message (actually a memo) before hitting the send button. To my dismay, all my message content got lost. So, I tried again but I almost flared up to discover that the same thing happened. I resorted to making an excel file and attaching the file instead. It worked finally.

It's happened to me not just once but several times. I don't know what causes it but it used to cause me grief and a frantic desire to recapture some eternally-important discussion. These days it doesn't much matter anymore. If it should happen again then I would just charge it to experience.

It is very frustrating to be sure. My advice, once you have a high enough rating, is to use an external editor to type the post and paste it into the form on MyLot. I'm not sure why the board eats your posts, but I think it logs you out after a certain amount of time.

Its a time out problem. The webpage becomes inactive after some time and when you press Post Response it has to become active again and I think it refreshes the page. Before posting your reply, copy it just incase. Or perhaps stop writing such long replys and work on shorter more factual and descriptive sentenses which portray your veiws clearly.