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So the other day I typed up a response to a question in a thread where some other users (myself not amongst them) were falling into a flame war. Between previewing and submitting, a mod temp locked the thread as a time-out for the flamers, and the system gobbos gave me the 'thread locked' message.

Thing is, the response I'd typed up got lost in the ether along the way. I tried going back a few pages, which ordinarily would bring up the form with the text I'd typed, but instead it brought up the 'thread locked' message.

Now, this isn't likely to be a common problem, but it was mightily annoying to have a lengthy post eaten and have to re-type it the next day. It would be much appreciated if next time I type a reply and a mod happens to make a temp lock on the thread before I hit 'submit', for there to be a simple way to retrieve the text I'd entered or else have the post put in a 'suspended posts' queue that get posted at such time as the thread gets unlocked.

A simple method is simply copying the post and transferring it to a word document etc. and pasting it when the thread becomes unlocked.

Only an option if you can retrieve the text (can't) or do the ctrl-c before trying to post (unlikely to do this every time).

Temp locking is very very rare compared to just locking outright. Getting in the habit of hitting CTRL-A CTRL-C before posting is very useful on all websites with text input, especially if you are typing something long or important.