# How often do you decide that what you're posting isn't really worth it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 16, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942 "2006-05-16T06:19:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Eligible\_for\_parole\_in\_2011](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@Eligible\_for\_parole\_in\_2011](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eligible_for_parole_in_2011)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/61 "2006-05-17T21:47:47Z")
Q: "How often do you decide that what you’re posting isn’t really worth it? " A: 50% ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/62 "2006-05-17T22:27:18Z")
Most of the time. Usually I don’t even write a post, but every once in a while I get particularly chatty and actually type something up and then hit delete. This is my second post today. I’d probably better stop; I’m babbling. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/63 "2006-05-18T01:41:45Z")
Under normal circumstances, I start to make posts far more often than I actually make them. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/64 "2006-05-18T02:15:03Z")
Lately, for some reason, only about 1 in 10 survive. Maybe for the first time in my life I’m learning to keep my mouth shut. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![flyboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@flyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyboy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/65 "2006-05-18T02:59:53Z")
Several years ago I came to this conclusion, which is why I rarely post. I’ve even come, over the years, to realize that I tend to read posts from people who’ve been here many years but have low post counts and skip over people who have high post counts (especially people who have been here a short time and have very high post counts). I figure the lurkers are actually sharing something important and interesting enough to get them to post. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/66 "2006-05-18T03:47:05Z")
Mind you, what can’t be counted is the number of people who thought to respond to this, then stopped before they did. Yes, there’s a high irony factor here. Sure, I get part-way through an answer, then realize that what I’ve written sounds awfully awkward, and that words are flailing mee. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/67 "2006-05-18T07:36:06Z")
Probably a thrid of the time I’ll either open the Reply window, then close it before typing, or compose a whole post and delete it without submitting. Like **ArrMatey!** , I think it happens more when the depression is worse. I do try only to post when I actually have something to say. No one wants to be another **Handy**. People who’ve only been members for 6 months and have 3K posts are attentions whore, IMHO. StG ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/68 "2006-05-18T17:05:34Z")
Well, I read the boards just about every day… :: looks at join date :: :: looks at post count :: Lots, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![Flipstrip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@Flipstrip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipstrip)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/69 "2006-05-19T02:03:43Z")
[QUOTE=ArrMatey!] Whenever the depression is acting up. I’ll start typing, and a little voice in the back of my head will remind me that no one really wants to hear what I have to say. So. _yoink_. Deleted. [/QUOTE] This is me, usually. Also, I’m not a very good writer. And I know it. ---
**Author:** ![theunfounddoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@theunfounddoor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theunfounddoor)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/70 "2006-05-19T15:27:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] Usually I realize that I’ve gone off on an irrelevant tangent, said what everyone else is saying, or find that what I thought was an original point of view really didn’t work out as well as I’d hoped. [/QUOTE] Diddo ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942/71 "2006-05-20T15:38:50Z")
This thread is starting to make me feel like such an unrestrained chatterbox! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-decide-that-what-youre-posting-isnt-really-worth-it/356942.md?page=3)