You’re in bed and you are thinking about what you might do at work the next day. Your thoughts turn to the SDMB and then almost immediately to any posts you made (with a view to predicting the replies and replying to them). You come to the conclusion that you were an embarrasment that day and that it’s probably a good idea to stay away tomorow.
No?
I do. Often. I say to myself “That wasn’t cool. You know you’re cool, but when you’re in front of that computer and the SDMB is loaded you are an excited child with a pathetic joke to tell or a weak anecdote.”
I wonder what I will think of this post later.
Never. Know why? Because this is a MESSAGE BOARD. It doesn’t matter what the people on it think of you because they don’t know you and you don’t know them.
Er, you’d be surprised at that one. I know (because of the board, not despite it) a fair number of the people who post here, I’d count a few of them as good friends as well.
Mine too!
It’s amazing how much stuff you can screw up that way.
(If you really work at it that is.)
To answer the OP:
Yep, but then hardly anyone reads my posts so I guess I’m safe.
Oh, I’ve also met a handful of people from here face to face so they kind of know me.
There’s definately a TMI post I regretted immediately after posting. But hell, I don’t know you people. And I was glad to see a lot of replies that basically said “Yeah, that’s happened to me too.”
But it does mean I might not be making any Dopefest appearances any time soon.
Same here. I know this is just the Internet and not real and all, but I do respect a fair number of posters and semi-value the spot where I fit into all this (standing on the sideline, beer in hand, heckling loudly, usually).
Quite. Well, apart from it not being “real”. What is real? I would say that it is. When my brother was hurt (rather badly) a couple of months ago, the response from people here was overwhelming. The Dopers I’ve ended up meeting (at Dopefests) have become friends. I know a few people who’ve met their SOs on the boards. So as for it not being real, just because its the internet, I don’t buy that at all. Behind each username is a real person, and you do end up getting to know them.
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And as for posts I regret, yeah, there’s probably a couple, but nothing really serious. My brain has a self edit function.
Yeah I get poster’s remorse pretty frequently. Usually right after hitting “submit” but sometimes not till hours later. But ya know what? None of the posts I regretted have ever come back and embarrassed me. Ever. The ones that came back to bite me in the butt were ones that didn’t even occur to me that I should regret. :smack:
Tomorrow I’ll probably see the above paragraph and lament my poor wording but am too tired to fix it right now.
Anyway, Lobsang, consider this a vote for “don’t worry about it.” I’ve never seen you post anything that I would regret if it were in my post.
I dunno, but the usual line of reasoning is “C’mon! It’s the Internet! It’s not real!” It was a snide dismissal of said reasoning, a “getting it over with”, if you will.
