# Long post shows as nothing, what's up with that?

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**Created:** [April 30, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-post-shows-as-nothing-whats-up-with-that/402136 "2007-04-30T05:02:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-post-shows-as-nothing-whats-up-with-that/402136/1 "2007-04-30T05:02:24Z")

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Related to [this GQ thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=418622)

If you look at the linked thread, you will see that posts 11 & 12 are blank posts by me. Except that they are not. If you click “reply with quote” you will see what I posted. Preview also showed what I posted.

Apparantly the post goes into the data base, but when the board software tries to generate the HTML, it generates nothing. Shorter posts don’t seem to have this issue.

What the heck?

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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 30, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-post-shows-as-nothing-whats-up-with-that/402136/2 "2007-04-30T05:04:31Z")

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::: sigh :::

I’ll refer this to Jerry, but it’ll be working hours Monday before he sees this.

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-post-shows-as-nothing-whats-up-with-that/402136/3 "2007-04-30T05:08:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Kevbo]  
Apparantly the post goes into the data base, but when the board software tries to generate the HTML, it generates nothing. Shorter posts don’t seem to have this issue.

What the heck?  
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It’s a known (by some of us 🙂 ) bug wherein if a /quote is missing in a post of over a certain (unknown) length, the post appears blank.

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-post-shows-as-nothing-whats-up-with-that/402136/4 "2007-04-30T05:11:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Frank]  
It’s a known (by some of us 🙂 ) bug wherein if a /quote is missing in a post of over a certain (unknown) length, the post appears blank.  
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I’ll add that the /quote should not include the user name.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-post-shows-as-nothing-whats-up-with-that/402136/5 "2007-04-30T07:09:32Z")

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Right, I had this happen to me in GD, but the Mod (bless his heart) fixed it.

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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 30, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-post-shows-as-nothing-whats-up-with-that/402136/6 "2007-04-30T12:04:49Z")

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Aw, that’s what I get for not going and looking at the coding; I just assumed the worst.

Thanks for the tip and the fix, Frank my dear.