Ummmmmmm, I don't know whether or not I was just censored by DU or the forces of darkness.

[Cyrano]

I was posting a rather lengthy rant about what Ron Paul said (see home page) about a possible upcoming MIHOP.

All of a sudden, what I was writing completely disappeared and was replaced by something I posted yesterday or the day before.

Yeah, I know there are gremlins lurking in software, but my insecurity/suspicion/paranoia meter just shot through the roof and then some.

I was well into my MIHOP "tin-foil-hat" rant and it was quite lengthy. And then, it suddenly disappeared into "delete-forever-land."

So my question is, has anything similar happened to anyone else recently? Or am I just a just a victim of a "Christ, that rant could have been Shakespearian" dilemma.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Let's review

You were on some paranoid rant about a "MIHOP," and something happened to increase your paranoia.

OK. Gotcha.

[yardwork]

9. lol!

[mloutre]

2. Just because you're paranoid

...that doesn't mean they ain't out to getcha.

[Cyrano]

7. I know what you're saying. I saw someone walk past my house yesterday

and I've been looking out the window ever since.

[Cyrano]

8. self-deleted. Dupe.

[Nite Owl]

3. That is truly weird

Why don't you try writing it in Word and copy/pasting it onto the message to post? At the least you wouldn't lose it.

I have lost posts (not to replaced though) but usually because I hit some key on the keyboard and it deletes everything I just wrote.

[Cyrano]

5. I do that most of the time, Nite Owl. I didn't this time, but I'm positive I didn't hit anything

that could have "disappeared" me. I am truly in a WTF funk.

[Nite Owl]

12. I'm just getting back to

DU Cyrano, did you try the post again? Just wondering if it was allowed to get through or whatever happened.

[treestar]

4. Agent Mike is wired into your computer

And he sees you writing that traitorous stuff!

No, really anything long, it is best to save it a few times along the way. You never know when cyberspace is going to suck things into the black hole.

[orleans]

6. did you hit refresh? i did that the other night and lost something

otherwise, no, that hasn't happened to me---(says mysteriously) at least i don't think it's happened.

[irislake]

10. We wish we could read it.

Thanks for trying.

[Cyrano]

11. Trust me. It would have been in a league with Jefferson, Madison and Franklin.

Okay, so I'm talking about Harold Jefferson, Alfred "Stinky" Madison, and Isaac Franklin. But what the hell. At least none of them were Republicans.