Starting posts then not posting them

How often do you type a post or half a post and then hit ‘back’ because its too lame or whatever? I guess it depends on what forum you’re in, but I feel some things are even too mundane and/or pointless for even MPSIMS (although, based on a lot of threads there, there’s plenty of folk who don’t feel this way).

Then again, how pointless is this thread? And yes, I did almost hit ‘back’ halfway through this post. I probably do that with around a third of the posts I start to compose.

Probably about a quarter of the time and considering my current post count and how recently it’s ballooned, that’s a hell of a lot of posts.

Never. I never, ever hit “back” when composing a post.

I usually use the “Go” menu to go all the way back to the forum index.

Not as often as I should.

I’ve been thinking for several days as I feed my fish… Is one of my fish helping out the other?

Let me explain…

I know nothing about fish. The only thing I know is how to clean the fishbowl and how to feed the fish. I know if it gets cloudy to change the small filter.
I got one of my fish from a friend. It was eating all of the baby fish in her tank and she didn’t want to kill it. Later, because it seemed to be lonely (at first it was quite active but later it would only go in very very very slow circles, if it really moved anywhere at all) so I got it a small cat fish (helps clean the fishbowl too).

The friend that gave me the fish came over to visit and when I was feeding it she said I was feeding it a little bit too much. So since then I have fed it less.

Here’s where it gets (slightly) interesting.

When I started feeding the fish less he would actually grab onto a piece of food and rather than eat it he would definately drag it halfway down to the bottom and let it go. He repeats this several times before eating as he was before, just going up and grabbing a flake. Before I cut back on how much I fed them the one fish never did this. The catfish eats the flakes, I wasn’t sure if he did or if he only ate waste and algae, but I’ve seen him find one and munch down on it.

So… Is my one fish helping out the other of an entirely different species?
Now that was TOO mundane and pointless for MPSIMS and way too pointless to be its own general questions thread, though there is nobody that I’d ask this question to (I really do not care enough about it to actually call up or go to a pet store and get looked at like I’m crazy by some clerk who just wants me to buy something and get out… and I can’t think of anyone with enough experience with fish who I could rely on their answer as being factual and not “Well, I’ve heard…” and last of all google wouldn’t help me much, as I can’t for the life of me think of a string of keywords that would be fitting.

That leads me to the boards. Though this is just too pointless.

This happens often.

Sometimes I will be posting and I can’t figure out how to say what I want to say without making it a long story so I just say forget it.

I just did that with my previous version of this post. It was too short.

oh, duh… I forgot, the reason this has anything to do with this thread is that I started to write the above story out as a thread a couple of times, but didn’t.

About 75% of the time I’ll start a post and then bail because I realize I really don’t have anything to say, hence my post count.

I really like lurking though.

Just about any post of mine that gets longer than a paragraph gets deleted. I generally get started then think “nah… nobody needs to know that.”

Around half the time. Depends on what forum I’m in though–I’m less likely to not post in MPSIMS than in any other forum.

debates posting, looks at forum title again, hits ‘submit reply’

I’d say most of the time, only about 10% actually get submitted.

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I often start a reply and then stop. This usually happens when a post has pissed me off, but then I decide that if I really have to respond, perhaps I should do it later, when I have had time to think about it rationally. Usually at such time, I find I don’t really need to respond.

Ditto. I abort more posts than I deliver.

I do it often. But I press ‘x’ not ‘back’.

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Probably about 75% of the time.

if I start writing, I always hit the submit button. However, more often than not, the post will fail to go through (great servers we’re paying for, ain’t they?)…at which point I will reconsider whether it is worth the effort to try again. There’s a reason I’ve been registered for 3 years and only have 300 or so posts…

right now I’m wondering how many people started replying to this thread, and then changed their minds :smiley:

I think maybe half of my replies end up getting deleted.

A higher percentage of my potential OP’s get aborted, though, because I re-read them and think “yeah, so what?”

I do this quite often upon consideration of the fact that I am creating a permanent record on the internet, and that anyone, at anytime, might read the post, and associate it with me. I make a point of not posting anything that I wouldn’t be comfortable with anyone reading.

Ergo, if I wouldn’t want my boss, my mom, my friends, my ex-girlfriends, my future girlfriends, future employers and so forth to read it, it doesn’t get posted.