Note to noobs - preview posts

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Ever lose your entire post, carefully crafted and perfect as a retort or informational reply here?

I dont often nowdays but I just did because I didnt hit the "preview post" button on the bottom of the page here.

As soon as you have something started, it'd be a good idea to preview.

That's happened more times that I can remember over time and I thought that I might just suggest that people do that ( for those with longer posts, I suppose )

Once your brilliant commentary or witty comment is within the preview, it's much less likely that you'll lose the whole thing if you screw up and hit the back button, etc.

It can also show glaringly obvious screwups that you may want to change before you fire that post off.

Just a suggestion.

Anyone back me up on that? How many people have lost good material (in your mind anyway ) due to some screwup and not been able to get it back and didnt want to spend the time to re-do it?

Anyone? Comm-ooooon.