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.
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. 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.
A lot more often than I post something.
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.
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.
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I “never mind” far more than I post.
Someti…Ah, screw it.
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.
Recently, it seems that for every post I make, there are 3 posts that I consider making but end up not making.
Never stopped me!
:dubious: wait a minute…
Give me a couple weeks.
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.
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.