Nicky wrote under Announcements:
I have also experienced losing a long post when I submitted it - not funny at all (smile), so I have started to work with the option "Save Draft".I would just like to warn you all about a part of the forum software safety feature which times your account/profile out due to a certain period of inactivity (I believe it's 20 minutes or more). . . . (text removed by me)
There are a number of ways you can circumnavigate this issue. One of which is that you can just highlight your whole post when finished and "copy" it so that if the forum times you out when you click "submit", you can simply log straight back in and "paste" the info back into the comment box. The only thing you'd have to do is to re-write your thread title if your post was to start a new thread off.
The second way is that you can write up your post in a Word document or something similar and simply just copy and paste it over to the forum comment box when you are happy with it.
You find your saved draft under User control panel which you find when you click on your name on the top right of the page. There you can choose manage drafts and view, edit, save and load your draft back to the thread you are working on.
I find this option handy when I want to sleep a night and read my post again before submitting it, and when I am copying the post to a translation tool to check my english
With love
Anna