# Aborted thread responses **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474 "2004-08-12T02:07:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/21 "2004-08-12T15:27:11Z")
Quite often as well. It’s either because of what other people have said, i.e. it’s not as funny as I thought, or as I type it I realize it’s too off-topic. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/22 "2004-08-12T15:39:44Z")
A whole lot. I’d say I throw out more responses than I post. An interesting side note, when Google caches vBulletin pages it seems to grab the reply to thread page. Including the text entered in the box. I found this out when I wanted to find a post deleted for being too freaky on [RPG.net](http://RPG.net). I figured I’d find a cached version of the thread with the post intact. Instead I found the reply to pages. I’ve yet to try it with other message boards, mostly because I don’t have any reason to. This won’t save those aborted posts, but it may save those posts that were previewed before being tossed. Google remembers what you wish you had said. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/23 "2004-08-12T15:53:34Z")
A lot more often than I post something. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/24 "2004-08-12T15:55:17Z")
I started to respond but **twickster** had already said more or less what I was going to say, so I didn’t. So now I’ve written another response, just to point that out. This is not my first response at all. You know, the one that I didn’t post. This is a different response entirely. I think I’m getting a headache. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/25 "2004-08-12T17:25:56Z")
I probably abort five or six posts for each one that I post. Either I think that my humor is too dark/twisted for the sensibilities of the more easily offended or I don’t feel like defending my off-beat political views or I realize that I am not nearly as good at giving the support/congratualtion responses as many others. The problem is, I think that some of the aborted replies are far better than the ones I end up actually posting. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/26 "2004-08-12T17:46:17Z")
> [@](#): > > [color=white]Originally Posted by **NoClueBoy** … [/color] Great minds thi ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/27 "2004-08-12T18:30:19Z")
I “never mind” far more than I post. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/28 "2004-08-12T19:28:36Z")
Someti…Ah, screw it. ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/29 "2004-08-12T20:04:39Z")
Pretty often–I’d say about 30-40% of the posts I intend to make end up getting abandoned. Usually, it’s because I take too long editing and rewriting my posts–I can’t post spontaneous quips. And then I get distracted (by something silly like work). By the time I think it’s polished enough to post, I’ll preview, and see someone else has expressed exactly the same points I was trying to make, about ten minutes before me. So I just say “screw it” and leave it to die. In a few cases, it’s in a heated GD thread. I’ll write up some response to an OP that’s pushed my buttons, and then spend another half-hour or more agonizing over my intended post–are my cites reliable (and links working)? is my tone level enough, or can it be misinterpreted as too hostile? do I really have the time to keep returning to this thread and posting replies to replies to my replies? Then I decide that there are other posters who can express my position more eloquently than I can, anyway, so I just sit back and watch the debate ensue from the sidelines. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/30 "2004-08-12T22:23:55Z")
Recently, it seems that for every post I make, there are 3 posts that I consider making but end up not making. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/31 "2004-08-13T00:01:26Z")
> [@dwc1970](#): > > …but I decided, “nahh, too lame, not original, not funny.” Never stopped me! :dubious: wait a minute… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/32 "2004-08-13T01:18:35Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > You haven’t even hit 5K yet, you little whippersnapper! Give me a couple weeks. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/33 "2004-08-13T04:11:31Z")
Somewhere in the range of 60-80 percent of the time, I choose not to post. I don’t mean to every thread I open, but specifically those where I think of adding something (a relevant experience, a link, a quip, whathaveyou) and then opt not to. ---
**Author:** ![Kedikat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474/34 "2024-03-15T05:03:22Z")
Most of the time I don’t make my dark humour posts. Once I did post one. The moderator said, too soon. I understand that. It can be a hijack if done too soon. Divert the main topic to jokes. But it pretty much ended me doing it. How about a twisted replies to threads, thread? Copy paste a thread title and maybe the first post or a particular reply that inspires a twisted response. And post it in the thread. I want to reply to the, “Why isn’t anesthesia used for executions?” thread. With. No complaints so far. But it is too nasty to insert in the actual thread. I almost did it… but no. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474.md?page=1)