# Your posts are toast or are you losing posts too? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 15, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490 "2008-05-15T22:49:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490/1 "2008-05-15T22:49:15Z")
Besides the horrible hangs with the server, I now am finding that posts are missing. I post and the server hangs. I go to the thread after the server responds again and the post is there. I come back hours later and the post is gone. What the heck is going on. Is the database corrupted? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490/2 "2008-05-15T23:31:46Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Besides the horrible hangs with the server, I now am finding that posts are missing. I post and the server hangs. I go to the thread after the server responds again and the post is there. I come back hours later and the post is gone. What the heck is going on. Is the database corrupted? [/QUOTE] I’m curious as to when you posted these disappearing posts? And to which thread. That’s a start to help us figure it out. And, yes, the database is no doubt corrupted and has been wonky for months. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490/3 "2008-05-15T23:37:01Z")
Today I lost two I think and a couple have disappeared in the last week. I will note problems in the future with more detail if they will actually help with a problem. Todays post were in the morning and I looked at the threads tonight. One was this thread > **[Getting more spam e-mail the last few days?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=468130)** > > Just curious if anyone else is experiencing this. I can go months and months without getting spam. But, the last few days, getting 2-4/day. Not the viagra/penis type, just mundane stuff. Can anyone say this is happening to them and can anyone... I would have posted as the second person in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490/4 "2008-05-16T00:15:34Z")
This is a test. My posts seem to be empty but no one else’s are. Even weirder, this one is fine. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490/5 "2008-05-16T00:24:32Z")
[QUOTE=Manda JO] This is a test. My posts seem to be empty but no one else’s are. Even weirder, this one is fine. [/QUOTE] Weird. Yep, your 8:13 post in the [Teaching how to think…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9806596#post9806596) thread appear to me, as of this moment, to be blank. I’ll send a note to Jerry. Best I can do. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490/6 "2008-05-16T00:39:44Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] Weird. Yep, your 8:13 post in the [Teaching how to think…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9806596#post9806596) thread appear to me, as of this moment, to be blank. [/QUOTE] Clicking “reply” shows the content in the quote box, though. Odd. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490/7 "2008-05-16T00:49:38Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] Clicking “reply” shows the content in the quote box, though. Odd. [/QUOTE] That’s giving me a clue! 😃 When that happens, it usually means that there’s an unmatched tag somewhere in the coding. I fixed it. For ten bucks I’ll tell you which tag was wrong. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490/8 "2008-05-16T00:57:15Z")
[QUOTE=Gfactor] When that happens, it usually means that there’s an unmatched tag somewhere in the coding. I fixed it. For ten bucks I’ll tell you which tag was wrong. 😉 [/QUOTE] Absolutely shameless, G. Cecil would have held out for $20. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490/9 "2008-05-16T03:12:10Z")
[QUOTE=Gfactor] That’s giving me a clue! 😃 When that happens, it usually means that there’s an unmatched tag somewhere in the coding. I fixed it. For ten bucks I’ll tell you which tag was wrong. 😉 [/QUOTE] The Google ad at the bottom of this thread: “Undo Circumcision Damage” Ahhh, the irony 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 16, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-posts-are-toast-or-are-you-losing-posts-too/449490/10 "2008-05-16T12:57:14Z")
Sounds like a database corruption problem, that’s usually what happens when we start seeing blank posts. I’ll make sure Jerry’s aware of this. Sorry for your inconvenience.