Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-32704847-20190528183132

This is a very old issue I have on forums when I take sometime to create an answer. The post is probably trapped by an AbuseFilter that thinks I'm not logged anymore, and it only allows me to publish my answer after a page refresh. The same thing happens when editing articles, with the huge advantage of an automatic refresh that KEEPS my editions, warning me that nothing has been published, so I can try again. On Forum threads no: my entire work simply disappear. Now, I'm an admin and I get really frustrated when this happens to me, to the point of retyping only a small part of the answer previously thought or not redoing it at all. So I can imagine those who try to contribute for the 1st time to the wiki, taking their time to create their post, and then, when finnaly clicking "Reply", all is gone. Certainly they will never come back.

Take these 2 situations:
 * 1 guy arrive on our forum and type "bleh"
 * Result: comment approved! Success!


 * another guy comes, take their time reading, start typing, do some research, gather some links, preview their post, everything seems b e a u t i f u l. Click 'Reply'.
 * Result: dommed. Go lurk, noob. Never trust forums.

It seems that very few wikis have this problem. I'm thinking about creating a visual warning (via CSS) for all editors when they hover the "Reply" button, so they can select their text and copy, before trying to publish. But this would be a last option. What more can we do to minimize these losses? 