I have just spent 25 minutes writing about an issue in my workplace, i havent posted anything for ages, why after writing and reading back my thread did the posting disappear when i pressed "POST" what a waste of my time!!

After suffering this myself (not on here i might add) i have for years always ensured i've copied and pasted elsewhere or saved the comments elsewhere and then copied and pasted to the place i want to post it. Think i lost an hour or so of work once, never ever lost anything since, apart from a years worth of emails when i was being moved from desktop to laptop...

It is a real bugbear of mine. It's one of the only forums where I've seen it happen (I post on a few) and I cannot understand why the mods have done this. That and the inability to edit your own posts.

Stevie - it's nothing to do with the Mods - they hate it as much as we do. It's an original design feature of the site which we've all complained about since day 1 - as is the lack of an edit function.

Hi Sean, I have spoken to the web team about this before and they are aware of the irritation it causes. There are a few other issues with the website which currently take priority once these are solved I am sure that the time out will be looked at. Unfortunately I doubt that this will be until some time late in the year, until then I would suggest that you follow Hally's suggestion of copy and paste your reply's/posts using a word editor. Regards, Richard

Wholeheartedly agree Heather. Is this forum powered by Vbulletin - an off the shelf package for forums that is widely used? If so, the fixes simply require a few settings to be changed by the forum admin.

Sean, all I do to avoid this most annoying part of the new forum is to simply use the copy/paste function. (highlight right click etc)No need to go to Word or other packages. I now ALWAYS copy my text, as a matter of routine, before posting so if time has flown then at least I can repost it by simply logging in again and pasting it. Annoying? Certainly is but this way at least I dont have the additional stress of having lost all those well thought out words of wisdom :):) P48

Anna Perhaps you might like to pursue a spill chucker as well, which has ben mentioned on the forum about a million times...thanks. Ray

Hi all RayRapp - We have been looking into a spell check facility but the honest answer is that following investigation into the options available, the resulting cost of integrating the proposed solution is very high, so we are considering alternative options that present better value for money. In short, we're unfortunately still at the drawing board stage. We'll update website users as we make progress on this. Ciaran Delaney - To clarify, Moderators are in place to help maintain the forums and as part of their role they are given access to the tools that enable them to carry out their role. Moderators review posted messages and act accordingly. If all our forum users were able to edit posts after the fact, the task of moderating would be made exceedingly difficult. However, I've noted from other posts on the forums that perhaps if there was an option to edit a post within 5 minutes of submitting it, that would be the type of facility users would appreciate. We can of course look into the feasibility of this type of functionality and I'll raise this as a consideration during our review of forum development over the next couple of months. Thanks everyone Anna Cooper IOSH Online Development Manager

Anna, I did suggest that the IOSH Forum would allow members to have a 15 minute window to edit their post as is the case with Linkedin. Jane. Thank you for been honest regarding moderators using the edit facility to make their posts clearer. Ciaran