Replying to threads/posts

ozpjman
ozpjman Posts: 872
edited July 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Hi all

This is something I do a bit without realising, so I thought id throw it open to see anyone else does it:

When you start replying to a thread or post, do you get half way through and think 'ah fuck it' or something similar, and then cancel the reply you had started?

Maybe you get half way through and think this isnt something I feel like posting, or just change your mind?

Slow work day, sorry
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Yep. By the time I get a few words into a reply, I forget what the thread was about. Then I scroll down to read the previous post, after which time I've completely forgotten what I was going to say. So I hit back on my browser, and go and read about guitars on the Gearheads forum instead.
  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    ozpjman wrote:
    Hi all

    This is something I do a bit without realising, so I thought id throw it open to see anyone else does it:

    When you start replying to a thread or post, do you get half way through and think 'ah fuck it' or something similar, and then cancel the reply you had started?

    Maybe you get half way through and think this isnt something I feel like posting, or just change your mind?

    Slow work day, sorry


    TOTALLY i think i do it even more when starting a thread ,,
  • I think that's happened to me more times...

    Ah, fuck it. *hits back*
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i know, i know it's hard to believe but um,
    i am guilty of this myself :)
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    i do ALL the time.....half way through writing the post i get bored and give up....ah add.....such a fun adventure ;):)


    also i want to keep my streak of never being banned alive ;):D
  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    All the time. :) I wish more would edit themselves sometimes. ;) j/k It's what makes it fun! :D
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    cutback wrote:
    i do ALL the time.....half way through writing the post i get bored and give up....ah add.....such a fun adventure ;):)


    also i want to keep my streak of never being banned alive ;):D

    Yeah, I do it but Im thinking I should've done it a lot more! Im sure I would have been gone already if I haven't done it about 10xs or so in the last couple of months or so.
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  • xscorcho
    xscorcho Posts: 409
    i probably do it more than i actually post.
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,224
    Yeah, I definitely do that. Sometimes it's because I think what I was going to post is stupid. Sometimes I feel that I would reveal too much about my personal life that others don't need to know. Sometimes it's because I might post something that would be a bannable offense and think better than to actually click submit.
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    I do it all the time. I start to wonder if what I've written will totally kill the thread!
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  • kcherub
    kcherub Posts: 961
    I don't want to sound like a dumb ass, and sometimes what I have written makes me sound like a dumb ass, so I just delete it and move on.

    It doesn't happen that

    EDIT: often. ;)
    I still want you all to "take care"--I am just damn tired of typing it.

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    cutback wrote:
    i do ALL the time.....half way through writing the post i get bored and give up....ah add.....such a fun adventure ;):)


    also i want to keep my streak of never being banned alive ;):D



    you know tim, considering the arbitrariness of some of the bannings im aware of, its not implausible you could get banned for breathing too heavily. :D
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    you know tim, considering the arbitrariness of some of the bannings im aware of, its not implausible you could get banned for breathing too heavily. :D


    hehehehe....kat likes it when i breathe heavy ;):p:D
  • electronblue
    electronblue Posts: 3,503
    o heck yeah!!...besides Edit is my friend...~
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    o heck yeah!!...besides Edit is my friend...~

    lol...you need to introduce us. :p
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    o heck yeah!!...besides Edit is my friend...~

    oh to be able to edit ALL our posts. now that would be awesome. :)
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,016
    Sometimes I tend to wander off and not even fin
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  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    all the time mate

    more now than say, 2 years ago, people/times are changing here..
    wah
  • The Champ
    The Champ Posts: 4,063
    I have to do this often..would be banned for certain otherwise :)..
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