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OMG I KNOW1!! i do that all the time! that is frustrating especially when you write a BOOK! then you lose it all and you have to rewrite it.. then the second thing isnt even as good as the first one you wrote grrrrrrrrrrrrr that one makes me mad

Easy with the pencil, you could do yourself an injury. When it happens to me I simply get up switch the kettle on and make a cup of coffee. What I have found is, because I have many applications and folders open at the same time (I work from home so I have work related stuff and other stuff open) and sometimes I find that I have 4 or 5 myLot discussions open. I will then post a reply to an interesting discussion, only to find that, on that particular page, I am not logged-in - AAARRRRRGGGGGHHH - pencil - temple or coffee. I then do the whole login bit and - guess what???? Yup a clean sheet - start again. I now tend to make sure (I have just checked and I am logged-in) that I am logged in before I post a response. I find it saves on pencils and coffee - lol

It used to happen to me so much that I got into the habit of selecting all what I have composed and pasting them in a notepad so that in case something wrong happens and it doesn't get posted, I still have a copy of my post. Of course, I had to re-type them all over again when that happens which, kind'a helped out on developing my typing skills... if I do have any of that.. (^_^") I just kept on participating, especially when there are those who do reply on my responses, even though each succeeding post wouldn't be counted, I still like the exchange. Then, when I really wanted to increase my post count, I would intentionally go to someone's profile and see if they have interesting discussions that I could participate in. Luckily, I do get to find some and that's smooth sailing from there.. of course, I still do the habit of selecting all of what I have typed and pasting it on a notepad in case pressing that 'post response' wouldn't really post it and would show me a window that coudln't display what should be displayed like, add tags or add to interest in case the topic isn't among my interests yet.. I could still recall the times that after giving all my heart on posting and it suddenly doesn't go through, I'd end up posting a shorter version of my ideas due to disappointment (-_-")

Never hit ctrl enter. It does something different in every application. Holy COW I do it all the time. I put less-than greater-than signs around ctrl and it deleted my response. How freaky is that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES! It always happens to me, I don't know why, it is really irritating. The worst part is I can't use control-z because it says I need 500 post to do so.

I just joined and Ive done that. They wont allow you to copy and paste either. Im still trying to figure this whole system out but that is fustrating so I totally relate to what your saying Jodilynn

Yeah, I've had that happen to me quite a number of times. After the first 4 or so times whenever I made a long post, I always made sure to copy&paste on notepad. Although I don't have to rethink the entire post, it's still pretty annoying to have to copy out the whole thing again since I don't have 500 posts yet.

oh yes, it had happened to me a loooootttttt of times already... there are times that i can go ok with it, but there were some times that i get really so annoyed, especially when im feeling lazy to type and i had already typed this long post and then something happened, its gone, even though i press ctrl z, i cant bring it back. just yesterday, i was replying to this post, expressing my feelings in it, it was really long, then i dont know what happened the message got lost and crtl z-ing will bring it back, i felt like throwing the dang laptop...

It really is annoying, just a different kind of rejection. A man should be used to it by now, yet here i am admiring the brilliance of my creative writing, then, POOF!! There she went! I look forward to getting to 500, just to gain a little more control, however, in my short mylot lifespan, I have now lost my posts 3 times:(