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I am very careful to ask questions intelligently on this platform. This means I will re-read the question. I even wrote and tested a working sample to demonstrate the problem.

However, when I was adding the tags to the question and about to submit, the document suddenly dumped the contents of the form and left a message that my question was 'suspicious'.

I did have to walk out the door and help my elderly parents shovel the walk, so there was a 30 minute pause in my editing of the form.

I'm trying to wrap my head around what triggered this app behavior, as I had trusted the web form to be stable enough to keep my question and not dump it unexpectedly. It was very frustrating for a human (because I am not AI)

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    I assume it was this message? In that case, the good news is that your humanity wasn't in question. That's the message for an incorrect anti-forgery token. Did you by any chance log out / log back in in a separate browser tab or something of that sort? Commented 2 days ago
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    The bad news might be that the OP's post is lost :( Commented 2 days ago
  • Actually, strange turn of events. So, the shoveling snow must of let my token time out, and then it set the form in a state where it was a forgery through some hocus pocus between linux, chrome, and your api that doesn't happen enough for you to troubleshoot. Good to know... Commented 2 days ago
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    Even stranger, I rewrote the post in a MD file, and when I was about to paste it in a new form, my post reappeared there...thank you cache? maybe? who knows. Anyway, it's all posted, and all is well on this black friday :) Commented 2 days ago
  • It seems the form timed out after your 30-minute break, which probably caused your session to expire and lost the content. Sometimes, platforms also flag content they consider suspicious, which could’ve triggered the issue. Next time, save your work in a text editor or check for autosave to avoid this. Commented yesterday
  • Yes Tayyaba, I'll do that from now on...plus it's good to keep track of what I am doing...make a source file with my question, a little markdown file next to it...good for traceability. Commented yesterday
  • IIRC to some extent, the posts are kept locally. Good to see that it came back tho! Commented yesterday

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