Troubles for the long winded racketboy poster

[J T]

Sometimes I am, shall we say, verbose. On this forum though, when my post starts to get long and reaches the bottom of the text box for a new post, it starts to do this weird thing where it scrolls back up to the top of the text with each new letter I type, so I can't see what the hell I'm typing any more. Does this happen to others and does anyone have a solution?

[aaron]

sounds like a browser problem. which one are you using/have you tried another?

[J T]

I use Netscape. Do you think that might be the problem?

Just kidding. I use Internet Explorer 8 mostly, and sometimes Firefox. I know the problem occurs in IE 8, but I don't know if it does on Firefox.

[gtmtnbiker]

I suggest writing your long post in notepad/textpad/emacs and then copy/pasting it. If the forums screw up, you don't lose your work.

[aaron]

i use firefox on mac and haven't had any problems, but then again i don't have too many text-heavy posts, haha.

[alienjesus]

I use chrome and don't have that issue. I don't write too many long posts, but my posts in the games beaten 2010 thread are normally close to 75 lines or so , as there's at least 60ish for my list of games i've beaten.

[Limewater]

I use Firefox in Linux and WinXP and don't experience the problem. I consider myself to be one of the more text-heavy posters on the forum.

[CRTGAMER]

That is strange. I just tried a test Reply holding down RETURN key for a while and typing a few words. The new composed text stayed at the bottom of the Edit box.

Maybe it is your long eloquent and entertaining writing, as my Dad says, "Another Wordsmith".

Agree maybe something in your browser, an Auto Fill routine or something. Any update you could install? Or another browser such as Firefox and see if the problem goes away? I used Safari in my old iMac for the test. I have Firefox as a supplement for full sub-folder Web page saves, but built in Safari seems faster for regular browsing.

[Jrecee]

It's the racketboy forum's way of saying: "tl;dr"

[Hobie-wan]

I haven't had the issue with Firefox, though I haven't had a post that fills my screen in quite a while. I would recommend trying Firefox even if you just paste something a bunch of times to test then type past the bottom of the box to see if it still does it even if it isn't something you post.