Post being dropped when submitted

[Burque73]

Please help.
On several occasions I have typed a long post, hit the submit button and everything goes away! The page keeps saying auto saved, and when I submit, it logs me out and most of the content of the post is lost! Is this to prevent someone from writing a novel here? I have read much longer posts than mine. How do you do it? Is there a time out setting or something?

Thanks,
Roger

[Dogma]

Sometimes if I've attempted to be encyclopedic, I'll copy everything I've written, ready to paste it back in if it's been too long.

[Steve]

When you log in, do you hit the "remember me" button?

I have found that if, for some reason, I have not hit it (on work computer, for example), I need to refresh the page every so often or it will log me out. On my personal computer, I have it checked so it 'remembers' me, and I don't have that problem.

It makes for a quicker log-in, too. When I hit the GSR favorites tab, I am immediately on the forum page and only have to hit the New Posts tab to start reading.

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[posplayr]

It has happened twice in the last couple weeks. I try and post and I get a popup telling me I exceeded the message length by do much and the edit dialog just dissppears

[Burque73]

I did not have the "Remember me" checked. Will from now on though.

Guess I could type in a word doc. then past when I'm done and ad pics pretty quickly.

[Steve]

I think you still have to link pics from a hosting site.

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[GSXR7ED]

That's happened to me but not since I learned my lesson that lengthy posts and time spent will get you kicked off. I've done the "back" arrow and was able to save my text. I like to use Notepad instead of Word to keep the same format.


Ed