The empty white space was caused by posts that had html tags in the preview window. If you don't see those tags, you won't get the white space. Ok. "While that may be an option on other forums, I think we want to be as transparent as possible. Even if a post was only edited for a typo or clarification, it just seems like the right thing to do." I wholeheartedly agree. In fact, on the Exchange Forums I would have liked for there to be no edit feature, since an occasionally shifty trader could edit their posts. Like offering cuttings, versus rooted cuttings, or offering this instead of that, etc. I know many wanted to be able to edit trade posts, but if they wanted to change what they had to offer, or what they were looking for, they could just update their trade lists...but oh well. Not my problem, since I am no longer actively trading on the Exchanges at this time. I know you said, "There is always a log kept of the original post. " but I doubt if anyone would want to go to the time and trouble to find out what an 'original' post said, unless they were out mega bucks and plants, iykwim. Sue

bigdoglover, I had previously compared the two profiles and there was nothing similar between the two. ----- yourself I live in: United States My birthday is on March 2. First registered on November 15, 2005. --------- I'm glad the programming is gone. I had posted something yesterday, and the green linky was in it and I freaked out. I thought GW would blame me that *I* put the linky in the post. I thought some virus had invaded my computer and all my posts had links in them sending people to porn sites or mortgage refinancing places. I do know that a lot of blogs have that system in them to make money, but I had never seen it done on a mainstream site before.

Concerning the Preview window. other boards have the option, but you do not HAVE to go through the preview step before posting. Would be nice to have the option (as with seeing a photo) or not. I see the HTML tags. Using Windows 7 and IE This post was edited by ghostlyvision on Tue, Nov 27, 12 at 18:17

Angela, it's NIVER been one of us. It's always GW and their Internal Errors. If they would fix this, no one would worry that their carefully worded and pithy saga was GONE! When this first started a long while back, I got in the habit of Ctrl+A on my post, waiting for the error, then going back into the thread to see if I posted or not. Always did. Ironically I haven't had this issue in quite some time. I'm on my laptop. They have to post on Facebook? What happened to those of us who use their [ahem] service to communicate with each other regarding areas of mutual interest? Are they giving up on their own, advertisement-saturated method of communication? Will GW/iVillage become a Facebook clone? Or just another Blog? Someone in our restaurant's corporate office decided the most important dictum of the week was that our ties were now full Windsor, rather than 1/2 Windsor. It was wildly important that we comply immediately. And to think someone got paid for that, when we have crappy bread, kitchens too small to accommodate a $50,000.00 Saturday night, and a dishwasher that can't keep up so everything has to run through at least twice. My point... iVillage might want to consider working on and with their own systems, vs. worrying about Facebook. And, probably Twitter. Well, they seem to be twits.