Yikes! Some of my Steemit Comments have VANISHED! Anyone Else?

When something happens once, that's just life.

When something happens twice, it's a strange coincidence.

When something happens THREE (or more) times... that's when I start wondering whether there's something weird going on. 

Welcome to the Strange Case of the Disappearing Comments!

I first noticed something slightly odd about a week ago... I like reading and curating and interacting with people's posts, and I wrote a fairly extensive comment, posted it... but when I came back a couple of hours later to see if the author had replied... my comment wasn't there.

I considered this for a bit... considered I might have pressed "CLEAR" instead of "POST" but realized it was unlikely, as I distinctly remember being returned to the original post. Eventually, I attributed it to "Internet fuzz..." that strange thing that occasionally "eats content" without explanation.

Then... just a couple of days ago I went back to check on a fairly detailed comment I had left on someone else's post... and I couldn't find the comment (a different comment) again. 

I know I left that comment... I saw it in the post's comment stream before leaving the page.

At this point, I'm wondering whether there's a bug in the system.

Then yesterday, I wrote a pretty long and detailed comment on a different user's post... once again, I saw it post, I actually re-read it for typos (I sometimes do that with long comments); so very clearly it was THERE... and then it was "gone," a few hours later when I came back to see if there'd been any replies.

And Then, there was This Morning

This morning... the same thing happened TWICE, within a two-hour period. 

Once, I posted about a 4-sentence comment on a "new" post, where I clearly saw my comment "post;" not hard to miss when there are only two comments.

But most annoying... I wrote a really long and kind of significant comment... finished it, proofed it, posted it, SAW it as I checked for typos (like with the other comment)... and now it's GONE, three hours later. 

Suddenly, I am not a happy camper!

Anyway, before I check myself into a mental facility for having issues with hallucination... OR file a bug report... has anyone else experienced anything like this recently?

In Summary

Seems this started about a week ago, as best I can tell. 

I even checked my recent activity log on steemd.com and feel a little concerned because there are things missing! Events, transactions... 

What the heck is going on?

Is there some kind of "lag time" during which a post might have been written back to my screen visually before it formally became part of the blockchain? Or, as the case may be, didn't become part of the blockchain?

I guess I'm going to start my own "event log" to double check myself here... used to do that on several forums/sites with "dodgy" posting algorithms. It's just time consuming and annoying.

But before I get all spazzy about it, I'd love to hear back from anyone else out there... possibly even one or two of the witnesses and developers who are more plugged in than I.

Thanks in advance!

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Published 20170708 13:44 PDT