Have you ever posted something here on the Boards that you either[ul][li]Immediately regretted, due to the manner in which it was worded or perhaps the forum in which it was presented, or[/li][li]discovered it the following morning, possibly hung over, and realized that you probably should’ve held back and refrained from hitting the “submit” button until you were in a better frame of mind?[/ul]Have you ever made a post you wish you hadn’t?[/li]Did you ever wish you could take it back?
I’ve read a few posts here lately where I’m certain that the writer(s), though they have a right to their feelings and are certainly entitled to airing their views in what I consider an open forum, might be regretting their decision to have worded their thoughts the way they did.
If these posters were generally well-liked and respected beforehand, would you hold against them forever a moment of anger, frustration or a lapse of verbal lucidity? I consider Dopers, as a whole, to be an open-minded and forgiving bunch, although certainly it depends on the poster and his/her comments.
But it is my hope the the poster’s reputation would be based on their post history and not on a few, ill-chosen words.
Comments?
Most recent event that comes to mind was my “10 Signs of a Professional Catholic” thread. This one was a double wammy.
First of all, though I thought the jokes were okay, I realized the next morning that I should’ve changed “Catholic” to “Christian”, since most of them were about fundamentalist dogma that didn’t apply to Catholics. Nuts.
As a mixed blessing, though, it was closed, since I put it in the Pit, and it was more of a joke thread than a rant. Still regret it now, since I was really proud of it, mistakes aside. I’ve actually been thinking about checking with the mods about re-posting it in MPSIMS. With the proper changes made, of course.
Hopefully, this didn’t lower anybody’s opinions of me. Not sure about that one, though.
In one of my periodic periods of depression and self-doubt I started one of those “Woe is me” threads that I deeply regretted the next day. Fortunately I don’t have a reputation to sully, but I did find it embarrasing.
