How often has this happened to you?

I just spent more than an hour preparing a rather well-thought out (at least by my ridiculously low thinking standards -- not being self-deprecating; it's just the honest truth) and cross-referenced post.  Sadly, with a misclick of a  button just as I was finishing, I lost the whole thing.  I have 7 buttons on my mouse and a bit of a tremor due to my horrendous nicotine and caffeine addiction.

I know all about copying your posts periodically, or preparing in Notebook, Word, or Outlook etc, but I didn't want to lose the default format (font etc.).  I was having to open up many pages from other parts of this site for cross-referencing purposes, copying little bits, and pasting them into my post so all that is left is this --> 3.67
Excellent addition to any
prog music collection
- and I didn't even write that.

How very stupid of me.  Has happened twice with a misclick (only ever at this site), but this was by far the most time-consuming yet that I lost, and one of my longest posts period.  Another time my daughter pulled out the plug of the computer, and another time she turned it off during an important work assignment with a  very short deadline (my computer saved that however, and when using programs for work I have them set to save periodically anyway).

I like to say that the joy is in the writing, but since I work as an editor, researcher, and writer of boring documents primarily, I should expect better of myself.

Ah well, my post was excessive anyway, and I don't think the absurdism in it would've been appreciated much anyway.

Any horror stories (deliberite hyperbole) of your own?

It happened to me some times. Not too horror, though. Also, rather long posts disappeared as a result of a misclicking. I have just rewritten them. I know it might be much worse. Not a pleasant feeling, though...

I'm usually careful -- I always right-click to copy my post before hitting that submit button, which is usually good enough.  I've often used Word our Outlook to compose posts -- but I find it easier at times using the post box for reviewing prior comments.

This particular mistake has only happened to me a couple of times (hitting the wrong button when touching my mouse -- sounds a bit lewd) , but twice over the last couple of weeks, and I've been using forums for many years, and this mouse for years.  Just the tremors causing slight loss of mouse control (one has to be very careful with it due to all the buttons that only need to be glanced -- time to replace it).

For reviews (not that I've written any here), I used Word.

The worst was when I was new to the Internet and not computer savvy (back in '99 or so).  I was reviewing screenplays for a website, and one had to be very thorough and write very long reviews -- suggest changes in format, grammar, plot, characters... everything.

I didn't know about copying and pasting... Would write my notes on foolscap and in the margins of a printed out screenplay and then expand on those notes greatly when typing my suggestions out.  It would take MANY hours to prepare it, and I lost all my work on one particularly difficult and time-consuming assignment -- had required extensive rewriting -- when I hit submit and my internet session had timed out. 

So that forced me to get to know some basics.

When I've carelessly lost posts in the past I've often re-written them, but this time it would be a post that I can't really replicate -- the basic ideas/ argument, but not the mode of expression, nuances or same sense for the absurd.  I'm just not in the zone or mood -- it's a lost moment which is probably a good thing.  Already forgotten most of what I wrote (and every poor pun too).

I don't write lengthy posts.
my posts are like
"Haiku"

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Yes, this damn thing^^ caused me to loose some well thought out and composed enviable masterpiece posts

Once on a different forum, I spent an hour writing a guide for something before it told me I wasn't logged in.

Every now and again for some obscure reason, the Forum logs me out, so I'll have spent time composing some of my usual garbage, hit 'post reply' only to have a pop up saying I'm not logged in & cannot respond to the thread.

A tad annoying.

Sean Trane wrote: I used to have the problem because ofan unstable connection but this is rather rare now.

I've always considered you to have a somewhat unstable connection, Hughes....

I rarely write lenghty posts.

I have, however, lost a couple of reviews over the past two years when I tried to write'em. My computer was pretty screwed at that time, so that's was the reason. The internet didn't worked as it should. It's fixed now though

Peter Rideout wrote: It has happened to me several times -- my sincere sympathy!