Q: "How often do you decide that what you’re posting isn’t really worth it? "
A: 50%
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.
Under normal circumstances, I start to make posts far more often than I actually make them.
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. 
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.
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.
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
Well, I read the boards just about every day…
:: looks at join date ::
:: looks at post count ::
Lots, I’d say.
This is me, usually. Also, I’m not a very good writer. And I know it.
Diddo
This thread is starting to make me feel like such an unrestrained chatterbox!