New Member: Not sure what happened to my posted reply?

[CharBAM]

Hello,

I believe that I did this correctly - though maybe user error is involved...as someone who is new to this.   I posted a question a few days ago and received three replies.  In an attempt to post a thank you to all three collectively, accompanied by a summary outlining what I took away from their combined responses  to confirm my correct understanding - I returned to my original post and hit the reply button next to my question .  I did not hit reply to one of the three respondents individually.  It was my intent to write as if I was a new respondent to the question, such that my reply would then appear below the 3 already there.  After completing a relatively lengthy summary, taking care to be precise in describing what I took away from the 3 answers - I clicked the post button.  However - my reply did not populate anywhere - and it is nowhere to be found under my profile/within drafts etc.?  My dashboard history indicates that I have made 2 posts and 1 reply.  I do not recall replying to anything previously - so I wonder if it has recorded the reply - but just not posted it.  It appears to have vanished into thin air.  By any chance can you see it?  It was a reply to the question "I am confused about the scoring of negative items. Please help!" ...under the section "Understanding FICO Scoring".  Or, do I just not know what I am doing?   Thank you so much.

[CreditCuriosity]

Likely in the spam folder if you did many edits to it you would have to ask a Moderator to restore it for you.  You can reach out to them to see if that is the case.  As you are a newer user multiple edits can cause this and the bot might think it is spam is move it there they can recover it likely.

[JoeRockhead]

You should be able to reply to your own post, or any other users comment. What might have happend was your reply got  flagged by the system as spam if it was too lengthy, or had a lot of edits before you hit the post button. You can try a couple of things.

1. Go back to your original post and click on the three dots at the top right of your post and choose "report inappropriate content" from the drop down menu. Type in a short message that you posted a response on the thread that didn't show up, and ask if it can be recovered. When you're done, click the "Notify Moderator" button. Give it some time to see if your response shows up.
2. If number one doesn't work, try typing up your response in word, or another program, then copy and paste it in a post here. You can always type it up here but be sure to copy the text before you hit "post" in case there's a snafu like this again. That way you can just start a new response, paste your content, then hit post.