# Post not appearing?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-not-appearing/607074>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 22, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-not-appearing/607074 "2011-12-22T14:23:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-not-appearing/607074/1 "2011-12-22T14:23:48Z")

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I posted a reply to :

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14592542#post14592542](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14592542#post14592542)

And it seemed to submit, but the reply did not appear. Help?

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-not-appearing/607074/2 "2011-12-22T14:42:23Z")

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What is your post number? Post #51 by you is at the top of page 2 (50 posts per page).

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-not-appearing/607074/3 "2011-12-22T15:17:58Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> What is your post number? Post #51 by you is at the top of page 2 (50 posts per page).

Indeed, my post appeared.. after someone else posted #52. When my post was the last one, there was no link to page #2.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-not-appearing/607074/4 "2011-12-22T15:22:18Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> Indeed, my post appeared.. after someone else posted #52. When my post was the last one, there was no link to page #2.

That is odd, for sure. Of course when I looked Post #52 was already there, along with yours. No way over here (that I can think of) to tell what was going on between the two.

Magic!