What Has Happened To My Replyr

[leahbee]

I was answering a question about smoking and the text just disappeared from the screen.What has happened to it and can I get it back. Thanks

[boxtops]

was it on a thread which has been pulled, perhaps?

[factor-fiction]

Maybe the thread was removed- happened to me this afternoon after typing a fairly long reply to a strange question earlier

[leahbee]

Thank you boxtops. I am afraid I do not know what a thread is. I am78 years old and new to computing. I takes me so long to type that I think it cut out before I had finished.Is this possible.

[factor-fiction]

This is a thread- a thread comprises a question and the resultant replies.
I have never known AB'time out' but I too have a few times lost my answers part way through by pressing a key- maybe a function key- by accident

[boxtops]

No, not likely, leah - but sometimes a conversation is going the wrong way (people being nasty to each other, etc). AB individual conversations are called "threads" - you've just started one! - and if the thread is taken off by the Editor, you wouldn't be able to post an answer.

[DJHawkes]

no it sounds like you've miskeyed actually, it happens alot to me cos i'm dozy and have my dad's hands.

[factor-fiction]

Was it this thread?
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1230955.html

[Eve]

What was the thread taking about, it wasn't the hypnotherapy to quit smoking one was it? That is still there.

[AlwaysConfused]

I agree with factor here, leah. I have often managed to hit a button that has deleted my response before posting. Grrrrrr is the word for that!

[DJHawkes]

lol sorry I didn't mean to suggest you were dozy though, lol

[leahbee]

Thank you all. I am a little bit wiser now. I was just a bit miffed because it took me so long to type.