[edit on 16-9-2009 by watchZEITGEISTnow]

Originally posted by watchZEITGEISTnow
THANK YOU!

I second that. Earlier today, I wrote a very lengthy post, also was copying and pasting from a different page, and lost EVERYTHING twice! The third time, I wrote it in microsoft word and pasted it to ats. This has happend in the past too many times, now I take extra precautions.

What happend though? I highlighted a sentence to remove it, and my whole post was gone! Sometimes I press enter and everything dissapears.

I get so angry, many times I just didn't bother rewriting the whole thing.

Thanks for posting this issue!

I also wondered what the hell kept going on, i always click on open space after highlighting some text. to undo the highlight.

its pissing me off.

Originally posted by jinx880101
What happend though? I highlighted a sentence to remove it, and my whole post was gone! Sometimes I press enter and everything dissapears.

That happens to me too sometimes. I try to highlight something, highlight too much, then my quick fingers delete everything. Try this. When that happens again, right click. You should see an 'undo' option. That will restore your text if you accidentally delete your progress yourself.

I also found previewing your post frequently helps. In case you do something silly like navigate away, you can use the 'back' button and it will take you to your last preview. Without the preview, it will just take you to the blank form.

At least the above is all true in Fire Fox. Transferring everything from MS Word or something similar is the fool-proof way but sometimes it's a pain to do that. lol

Originally posted by AshleyD

Originally posted by jinx880101
What happend though? I highlighted a sentence to remove it, and my whole post was gone! Sometimes I press enter and everything dissapears.

That happens to me too sometimes. I try to highlight something, highlight too much, then my quick fingers delete everything. Try this. When that happens again, right click. You should see an 'undo' option. That will restore your text if you accidentally delete your progress yourself.

I also found previewing your post frequently helps. In case you do something silly like navigate away, you can use the 'back' button and it will take you to your last preview. Without the preview, it will just take you to the blank form.

At least the above is all true in Fire Fox. Transferring everything from MS Word or something similar is the fool-proof way but sometimes it's a pain to do that. lol

We all know how to defeat it using annoying methods. But can we just get some site admins to weigh in how the benefits of having such hotspots outweighs the numerous problems relating to them.

It happens to everyone at one point or another. Yet we haven't seen one person show up to tell us how wonderful it is that they no longer have to move their mouse 100 pixels to the logo, and can rather click the sides.

But... not if you scroll down, the sides are not links then. Only at the top, when the logo is visible. Talk about redundancy.


I think this topic is interesting cause it highlights an issue with humanity in general. We have a working system, we add a new feature that is supposed to improve it. In just a short time, we forget what it was like to not deal with this new additional annoyance. The new feature does more harm than good, yet people don't bother to question it. Rather they rationalize, and provide temporary solutions. All while forgetting that simply reverting back to how it was prior, would solve the issue.

Amazing.

[edit on 16-9-2009 by king9072]

Glad I wasn't the only one frustrated by this. It can be very annoying : /

It's got me quite a few times too. I'm joining the petition. Flag for you

Since I tend to go along with everyone rather than presenting an opposing view, I will also go along with the get rid of the sidebar clicks. Nothing is worse than when you put something that you are proud of in writing and then watch it dissapear due to some unexpected user error. Hasn't happened to me yet, but the one time I write something worth posting I know that that it will ultimately be eaten by the sidebar link..

stop using internet explorer

Originally posted by tgidkp
i am having this problem as well. i use the space for re-focusing the browser window. i have yet been unsuccessful in retraining my browsing habits....and unwittingly end up back on the home page. what could possibly be the purpose for this?

annoying.

I do the same thing, if i'm refocusing back to the browser i tend to click off to the side somewhere so I don't inadvertently click on some link or ad that might otherwise take me away from the page AND THATS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS!

This annoyed me so much I also made a thread about it never got much response to it though I lost probably the biggest post I'd ever made to this feature and yeah I didn't bother again.

I tend to be doing several things at once when I'm on the pc and this keeps catching me it's just how I browse and always has been I'm aways refocusing the browser to scroll.

Sometime I swear it changes to home without me even have clicked it though although I guess I must have.

Add me to the list. Really annoying.

Death to the links on the sidebars!
Death to the links on the sidebars!
Death to the links on the sidebars!
Death to the links on the sidebars!
Death to the links on the sidebars!
Death to the links on the sidebars!
Death to the links on the sidebars!
Death to the links on the sidebars!