For 2 days I have been unable to post anything on the finance boards. Help.?

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This happens intermittently to me too. Sometimes too, my messages disappear into the Yahoo ether. Sometimes whole message boards disappear for a while, The Echo screen name constantly blames the user and asks them to perform some ridiculous process. The reality is that their server and database software is unreliable/best effort. What I believe happened is that the old Finance message board server/DB became expensive to support. Yahoo management decided they could cut cost by migrating it to existing software/hardware used to support their other message media. Yahoo now treats the Finance MB's as if they were throwaway social media, like we're commenting on what JLo wore last night. Who cares if you can't post or messages disappear or the reply button is missing or whatever? As a sop, they added the bell to the top of the screen and thumbs up/down and now give POINTS (let's see who can collect the most). Yahoo management believes that we need ego boosts more than knowledge.