Posts randomly vanishing?

[Rydian]

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=266...15&start=15

My post at the bottom of page 2 there, it's... nothing. However I did post a sentence, now it's gone.

There's no edit notice, no reason for it to have been removed, and when I try to use the quick edit it just doesn't even load, and when I go to quote it nothing shows up in the post box, not even quote tags surrounding nothing.

I've seen this happen to another post or two in other threads, but I thought it was people just continuing a "post nothing to confuse people" trend from the EoF.

 

[ProtoKun7]

OMG it did it to me too, am I doin' it rite?!! Nah not really, but I have seen it lately.

Very nice

I bet I could do that better, but I doubt that it would stop the quote from disappearing completely (i.e. tags and everything).

 

[basher11]

my post vanished just a minute ago.

 

[mameks]

Is someone going around 'clearing up' the 'temp :?

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Well, when the staff edits a post, the person that edited the post can be seen by the staff, so I'd say this is a legitimate bug.

I too thought this was some trick that people were pulling to confuse others in the EoF.

 

[Deleted User]

I agree that it is a ghost - more likely...A GBATEMP GHOST!

scary...sounds like our Pokemon Creepy Black GHOST is creeping about...

 

[Deleted_171835]

*poof*

 

[dinofan01]

just wanted to say I noticed this too. I had posted through quick reply but when I got sent back to the thread my posts was no longer there. I just gave up and didnt repost my thought.

 

[Another World]

this happened to me earlier today in the wood 1.18 thread. i made a reply, posted it, and it posted blank. i reposted it by editing and it worked. i had quoted text in the original message, not sure if that matters or not.

-another world

 

[Infinite Zero]

Hm, strange. I haven't experienced this, yet.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Hm, strange. I haven't experienced this, yet.

Me neither.

And if you can read this, quoting didn't seem to cause trouble here.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Weird, weird, weird.

Also, you can post seemingly empty posts by using a zero-width character like this '?', so would the use of these in the EoF have caused those empty posts to start showing up?

Sucks either way, especially when you type up something big and your post gets completely removed. :?( Oh well, that's why Google Chrome (and probably the other modern web browsers, too) keep a copy of what you typed around for a while, and even if you're using a browser that doesn't, you can just copy everything you typed before you actually post the post, just to make sure you won't lose it.

EDIT: and what in the world is up with this post? http://gbatemp.net/t267077-ask-gbatemp-sho...t&p=3294034

 

[mameks]

EDIT: and what in the world is up with this post? http://gbatemp.net/t267077-ask-gbatemp-sho...t&p=3294034
ProtoKun didn't want people to know that his post had been edited, so he put
[ color="white" ][ left ][ /color ][ /left ]
at the end of his post, turning the bit saying it had been edited white.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

EDIT: and what in the world is up with this post? http://gbatemp.net/t267077-ask-gbatemp-sho...t&p=3294034
ProtoKun didn't want people to know that his post had been edited, so he put
[ color="white" ][ left ][ /color ][ /left ]
at the end of his post, turning the bit saying it had been edited white.

But that makes no sense... How can something inside a post have any effect whatsoever on the 'edited then, by that person' tag?

 

[Rydian]

Also, you can post seemingly empty posts by using a zero-width character like this '?', so would the use of these in the EoF have caused those empty posts to start showing up?If you quote those posts the quote BBcode still comes in. Not so with the actually-empty posts.

QUOTE(Overlord Nadrian @ Nov 29 2010, 03:21 PM) But that makes no sense... How can something inside a post have any effect whatsoever on the 'edited then, by that person' tag?

The tags were closed in an incorrect order and it messed up the parser a bit, a small forum bug that can be fixed (as use of the left alignment tag is really rare, a bug involving it is unlikely to be found or cared about, to be honest).

 

[ProtoKun7]

I had the same thought about zero-width spaces, which is why I said I could do better than Sterl, but as Rydian said, quote tags would stay.

 

[tj_cool]

But that makes no sense... How can something inside a post have any effect whatsoever on the 'edited then, by that person' tag?The tags were closed in an incorrect order and it messed up the parser a bit, a small forum bug that can be fixed (as use of the left alignment tag is really rare, a bug involving it is unlikely to be found or cared about, to be honest).

Actually, it's a bug in the HTML itself.
I found out that when you do

, the effect of the span keeps going (in this case till the end of the post), eventhough it's closed. So it can't be fixed that easily (nor is there any need for that).
It has nothing to do with [left] and [color] specifically.

 

[ProtoKun7]

http://gbatemp.net/t268023-my-borther-s-ri...t&p=3308558

There's another vanished post.

 

[haddad]

This has happened to me do, so I had to re-edit the post and re-type everything to make it work, it happened to me last night

 

[Another World]

i just quoted a post for a reply. when i posted my reply it was in the users post above me and the post i expected to see didn't show up. perhaps this is an indexing problem?

-another world

 

[Rydian]

It actually happened to a thread of Costello's a few days ago, so he rolled back the thread. He may know more about what causes it now.