In threads with polls, typing a reply, clicking Preview first, then clicking Save ends up not posting the reply and just cancelling the previously recorded vote in the poll, even though the “cancel vote” button was not clicked.
Anyone else notice this? It’s been this way for quite some time, over a year.
Happens with me also. Not being a native English speaker/writer I use “preview” a lot, and then happens what you describe. Which made me occasinally think: !@#$%^ the poll.
Sorry for the oddities of the poll module here, it’s always had its quirks unfortunately… The only thing I can suggest is to clear your budgetlightforum.com cookies.
it happens both when I edit, or if I create a new post
I use Simple
I just went to a poll thread and did a test
first I started an edit of an existing post by adding
“test edit”
then I did preview, and the test edit was visible, it was fine the first time, but I did not save, instead I edited again
by adding a “second line”
I then did a preview and both test edit and second line were gone…
basically, by the second preview, the edits stop working
I got the same result with a new post
composed one line, did a preview and it worked
composed a second line, did a preview, and both lines were gone
this only happens in a poll thread, I cannot duplicate the problem in this thread we are in now
Thanks for confirming these details. Again, if it’s a poll thread I probably can’t do much to fix it, since there are some weird quirks in the poll module.