# Posting Problem

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/231423>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 27, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/231423 "2004-02-27T05:18:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/231423/1 "2004-02-27T05:18:17Z")

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I’ve been trying to post to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4572877#post4572877) for the last couple days but no luck. I type my reply in the box and submit but it never shows up. After awhile I just get the “Cannot find page” error. I can post in other threads and obviously open new threads.

After trying and failing to post my words from there here I now suspect that it is a length issue. I seem to be able to make short posts but not long ones. And I don’t mean superlong, just a quote and one substantial paragraph in response.

Help would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/231423/2 "2004-02-27T05:35:34Z")

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Since this place is for testing. Try posting it here. (to see if it’s not a problem specific to that thread)

I did notice in the past that shorter posts had a better chance of getting through.

You _could_ split it up into two posts, as a last resort maybe.

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**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/231423/3 "2004-02-27T05:40:02Z")

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I did try posting it here. It didn’t work.

I didn’t think of splitting the post in 2 though. Perhaps that would work though I’ll wait to see if there are other suggestions first.

Thanks!