My posts are coming out blank!

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I wonder if this one will, too?

TEST

Oh, as you were: it seems to be working again.

How odd.

Hang on, no it's not.

I'm trying to make a post on the thread entitled "Labour: The party that hates Britain" in the news/politics folder. But it keeps coming up blank.

Any clues as to what's going wrong, anyone? And more importantly, can it be fixed somehow?

Yes, that's quite odd.
If I quote or edit this (or any of your other "invisible" posts there) I see all the text is present - yet not when I try to preview my quote of it.
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp5733683.html#5733683

I'll investigate further...

I'm glad it's not me going doolally or something!

I eagerly await the results of your investigation.

Cheers!

The problem was caused - at least, in that post I linked - by an error in the use of the [url] tags.

You had:

but it should have been: Notice where I've added a closing bracket and the text "click here" before the closing [url] tag.

The general format of the named link url tags should be a URL followed by the text which will display instead of the URL in the post and since that text wasn't provided, the whole thing fell apart.
This is possibly specific to that particular thread - I've seen other odd errors resulting in weirdly corrupted displays that were caused by... well, nothing obvious, really - but simply editing a post somewhere upthread, to change only its layout, fixed those problems downthread.

On balance, the named link url code tags as implemented here aren't really worth the effort because they don't properly highlight the text as being a clickable link and while it's possible to fiddle about with other attributes to create that effect, it's easiest to simply plonk the URL as plaintext into the post exactly as it appears in a browser address bar because then, it is automatically underlined and made clickable with no further fiddling required.
For example: http://www.wrongplanet.net
(just be careful to ensure there is a leading and trailing space on the URL string, otherwise it's likely to be treated as ordinary text and not made clickable)

I've now corrected your first post (linked above ) and removed the invisible ones.

Do you know, I had an intuitive inkling that it was some aspect of URL formatting that was causing the problem, but dismissed it as unlikely.

Thanks ever so much for sorting it out and removing the multiple blank posts -- much appreciated.

You are a credit to the moderatorial species.

Thanks - the cheque is in the post...

1 post to go n I'm in!