HELP, my idea has disappeared !
I created an idea, which at the time I thought was helpful and practical. Not very long after, I began to discover that it wasn't. I edited the original idea to add Postems, describing the issues I was having, a bit like a bug report, keeping a placeholder for the problems in a public place so that others could see. After my last edit, the idea went blank and a note appeared saying my edit was subject to approval. Now the entire thing has gone. It's not in the ideas list, and when I try to use the history list to go to the original URL, I get a screen showing
Discussion Not Found
The page you were looking for could not be found.
The original URL was https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/103929/new-search-gui-quick-interim-fix-please
Nobody gave me any kind of feedback to tell me why it needed approval, and I have no notifications. Was it just a fault ? If not, then can I have an explanation, please.
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FYI
I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...
Just in passing ...
Take a 'look' in your 'Drafts' ...
ie.
Select your 'Profile' ...
The, select "Drafts" ...
https://community.familysearch.org/en/drafts
You may get 'lucky', sometimes, a 'Copy' may have been 'Saved' in one's 'Drafts', where it can be resurrected.
Certainly, not always; but, sometimes ...
Good Luck.
Brett
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Thanks I'll take a look.
Nope: Drafts is empty.
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This is a fairly commonly reported problem. I just make sure I copy the text before posting - especially following an edit, which seems to be the most common time for your comments to completely vanish.
The solution applies generally to losing any text on this website: if you are typing a lengthy message or Life Sketch in Family Tree, for example, you are likely to lose everything if you don't copy into (say) Word, then paste into FamilySearch / FS Family Tree when you have finalised your piece.
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As Paul said, this forum doesn't like us editing our posts. It really, really doesn't like us editing our posts with images. I haven't figured out exactly what triggers the "approval" message, but I have concluded that the message is false: what it actually should say is that your post has been permanently lost.
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Sound advice.
I would normally keep a text editor window open when I'm typing anything big, but this was an already posted item that I was just editting. I mistakenly presumed it was stable. From what you say, it seems like it's a bug in the forum application, or the forum moderators are trigger happy if they see something other than plain vanilla.
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Yep. This may be the same problem I reported previously. Your comment may come back days later. There does not seem to be any actual approval process.
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It seems that the answer has been adequately provided in the thread below..
https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/104767/problem-with-editing-responses#latest
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