The Mystery of the Disappearing Postings

[Cadet]

Cadet,

I followed your lead and sent another email to her as well.

Yes thanks for including me.

[Cadet]

Posted this on Newcomers and will repeat here

Here is part of an e-mail that I just got from Virginia.

In the meantime, the UBB expert who has been helpful to us over the years is suggesting that basically users are compiling their posts in a word processor, and it's converting regular apostrophes and quotes to curly quotes, which causes issues.
So for now, the best advice we can give is to instruct users to NOT use a word processor to make their posts.
An editor such as Notepad doesn' insert its own characters and should work better.

So as we have been figuring out try to type your posts out.
This should give you a higher probability for success.

They are still working on the issue and their will be some other upgrades to the forum.

[Vanilla]

I do not use a word processor so I don't think that's the cause.

V

[Cadet]

I do not use a word processor so I don't think that's the cause.

V

Its one of the causes their are others too!

[Btrow]

Silly question, but do you all try the preview button before submitting?

[job]

I, myself, use it quite often and edit my postings before they are posted. I don't know if the posters have given any thought to using the preview button...but it is a nice capability to use to check your spelling, etc. before hitting the submit button...since we no long have the capability of using the edit button.

Btrow, you are correct, the issue is may be far more complicated than what Virginia has provided in a way of an explanation. They are still working on the issue and as soon as Cadet and I receive word that the issue has been resolved, we will let all of the posters, across, the forums know.

[Cadet]

Silly question, but do you all try the preview button before submitting?

Great Point - I wonder what you see when you post a blank page, anyone care to share that, since I have yet to have a blank page!!

[Coconut]

Yes, I use the preview button every time, my blank posts showed the words when I used the preview button.

[Cadet]

Yes, I use the preview button every time, my blank posts showed the words when I used the preview button.

Hmm - how are you creating those posts?

[Coconut]

Yes, I use the preview button every time, my blank posts showed the words when I used the preview button.

Hmm - how are you creating those posts?

I've only had two posts that won't show, both are cut and paste. They both show when I preview, but go blank when I post.

Also, I followed what anotherstander stated in another one of these threads, and I was able to see the post in preview, but when I switched to full page preview it becomes blank.