# Ever get a "OMG, I can't believe I posted that" long after using the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432 "2004-01-14T19:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 14, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/1 "2004-01-14T19:41:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/2 "2004-01-14T21:04:10Z")
Ha, everyone’s afraid to post to the thread. I’ve had a few of those, but mine usually come after I hit Submit Reply. The brain kicks in and I sit here going, “Damn, did I just post that?” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/3 "2004-01-14T21:10:04Z")
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up for me. Especially now that I found out my wife has been stalking me here. :eek: Oh well. So the whole world knows I’m a :wally * * * Please organize that middle room. ---
**Author:** ![BellaDellaItalia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BellaDellaItalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellaDellaItalia)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/4 "2004-01-14T21:14:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/5 "2004-01-14T21:22:23Z")
> [@BellaDellaItalia](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/6 "2004-01-14T21:30:22Z")
I just wish we still had the “search” button under each person’s posts… so that when there are specific examples I can go back and look them up 😃 What? ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/7 "2004-01-14T22:46:02Z")
Only once or twice. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/8 "2004-01-14T22:57:17Z")
Thankfully my brain usually stops me before I do something heinously stupid. So I’ve never regretted a post. But I have typed up a reply and decided it wasn’t worth being submitted for whatever reason. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/9 "2004-01-14T23:00:27Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > I just wish we still had the “search” button under each person’s posts… Click on the link of their name in the upper left hand corner of the post and you will find a handy “Find all posts by Username” link. Push all the buttons you find, that’s my motto. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/10 "2004-01-14T23:17:57Z")
Yer pushin’ my buttons! ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/11 "2004-01-14T23:29:15Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > Click on the link of their name in the upper left hand corner of the post and you will find a handy “Find all posts by Username” link. > > Push all the buttons you find, that’s my motto. 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. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/12 "2004-01-15T01:23:30Z")
There’s probably… ::ahem::… a COUPLE posts that I shouldn’t have made. Probably. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/13 "2004-01-15T01:42:30Z")
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. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/14 "2004-01-15T02:22:30Z")
Of course I have posts I regret later. But you don’t think there’s a chance in hell I’ll bring anybody’s attention to them _now_, do you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/15 "2004-01-15T08:34:04Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > 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. 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). ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/16 "2004-01-15T08:47:07Z")
I once started a whole damn thread that I regretted. I’m surprised I didn’t have an entire _country_ ticked off at me! Thankfully, it got eaten in the Great Crash a while back. Good riddance! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/17 "2004-01-15T08:55:24Z")
> [@GMRyujin](#): > > Same here. I know this is just the Internet and not real and all, but I do respect a fair number of posters 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. [end hijack] And as for posts I regret, yeah, there’s probably a couple, but nothing really serious. My brain has a self edit function. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/18 "2004-01-15T09:00:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/19 "2004-01-15T15:52:43Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=235056). ☹ Why can’t I think before posting stupid shit? I don’t want to get banned again. I’m afraid I’m gonna piss UncleBeer off again. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432/20 "2004-01-15T18:38:35Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > Quite. Well, apart from it not being “real”. What is real? I would say that it is. _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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-a-omg-i-cant-believe-i-posted-that-long-after-using-the-sdmb/224432.md?page=2)