Here is part of an e-mail that I just got from Virginia.
Originally Posted By: Virginia
In the meantime, the UBB expert who has been helpful to us over the years is suggesting that basically users are compiling their posts in a word processor, and it's converting regular apostrophes and quotes to curly quotes, which causes issues. So for now, the best advice we can give is to instruct users to NOT use a word processor to make their posts. An editor such as Notepad doesn' insert its own characters and should work better.
So as we have been figuring out try to type your posts out. This should give you a higher probability for success.
They are still working on the issue and their will be some other upgrades to the forum.
The info Virginia posted is sort of right. It is true that if you compile messages in a Word doc (or similar) and then copy/ paste it into a reply window it will cause problems such as strange symbols appearing, but that has always been the case and has never caused replies to just completely disappear like they are doing now. Plus I personally type everything in the reply window here. Most of my posts are going through but some do not. I cannot figure out why.
Originally Posted By: Cadet
From Surviving my post
Originally Posted By: Btrow
Silly question, but do you all try the preview button before submitting?
Great Point - I wonder what you see when you post a blank page, anyone care to share that, since I have yet to have a blank page!!
I ALWAYS use the preview window to check for typos before posting. My messages always show up in preview, even when they blank out once submitted.
