# Message Board Has a Quirk, Me Thinketh!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-has-a-quirk-me-thinketh/242380>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 27, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-has-a-quirk-me-thinketh/242380 "2004-04-27T23:39:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-has-a-quirk-me-thinketh/242380/1 "2004-04-27T23:39:10Z")

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My mouse arrow disappears when placed over any active field when submitting a question or response. It’s kind of annoying. I am trying to point with the mouse to place the cursor where I want it, and then I’m driving blind! Also, when looking at Cecil’s “Today’s Quesions”, the mouse arrow will disappear when moved over the text.

Is this a new bug, or I’ve just never noticed? It’s so annoying, I doubt I never noticed. OK, now everybody sing: “What have they done to our Boards, ma? What have they done to our Boards?”

- Jinx

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-has-a-quirk-me-thinketh/242380/2 "2004-04-27T23:44:10Z")

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Correction! When the mouse arrow is placed over _any_ text, the mouse arrow disappears! It makes it very hard to put a word in italics, for example! I can’t see what word I’m selecting! How annoying! :mad:

Oh, Magoo, you’ve done it again ole boy! That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into, Stanley! - Jinx

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**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-has-a-quirk-me-thinketh/242380/3 "2004-04-28T01:39:22Z")

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> [@Jinx](#):
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> When the mouse arrow is placed over _any_ text, the mouse arrow disappears! It makes it very hard to put a word in italics, for example! I can’t see what word I’m selecting!

What’s supposed to happen is that the mouse arrow turns into the “insert text” symbol, which looks like a little I-beam. Not having heard any other complaints, I venture to say this is local to your computer. Do you notice this with other programs? Have you tried re-booting?

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-has-a-quirk-me-thinketh/242380/4 "2004-04-28T02:44:59Z")

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> [@Ed Zotti](#):
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> What’s supposed to happen is that the mouse arrow turns into the “insert text” symbol, which looks like a little I-beam.

That’s what I get. Uhh, yeah, just so you know.

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-has-a-quirk-me-thinketh/242380/5 "2004-04-29T00:24:04Z")

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Please stand by. The trouble is not in your [TV] set…it’s in your head!  
It seems to have fixed itself. It just seemed to be happening here! Hmm…  
Should I be taking it personally?

Thanks!

- Jinx