# Do you ever get this problem? (Invisible post.)

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**Created:** [April 22, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-get-this-problem-invisible-post/494007 "2009-04-22T19:24:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-get-this-problem-invisible-post/494007/1 "2009-04-22T19:24:29Z")

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This is maybe the second time this has happened to me. It’s not a huge problem but it’s weird. I just posted to a thread. It was post #8, which would make it the 7th reply. The previous poster was **Jettboy**. On the forum page it lists him as the last poster, with the 6th reply. It’s as if I never posted. But when I open up the thread, my post is right there.

> **[What did they put in Justice Breyer's pants?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=515045)**
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> Just had to share that excerpt from yesterday’s oral argument in the student strip search case.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-get-this-problem-invisible-post/494007/2 "2009-04-22T22:10:00Z")

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I do believe the system doesn’t update after every posting – it updates in batches – so there may be a bit of a lag before the system catches up with itself and listings are shown appropriately.

It’s the same reason post counts don’t accrete as people think they should – sometimes there’s a bit of a lag there as well. But eventually everything gets sorted out and things show as they should – but it doesn’t happen instantly.