Writing posts, but not posting them.
 

Do you ever do this? I do. Alot. Probably I post about half of what I write. And the rest, I preview, edit, preview, edit... . . .

I was going to comment on this, but I just deleted it instead.

Every now and again I type something in the quick reply box that's just too over the line in terms of flamage, and luckily, my sensibility sensor kicks in just before I hit post.

I do this about half the time. I just did it in the Rules of Engagement thread. It's normally because I have no confidence in my response.

My father is the kind of guy who keeps his mouth shut until he has something really good to say. Then he says it. His words have value. I always admire that trait and I try to emulate it.

BUt here on the Cellar, that's not the point. It's good to have posts that have some value to them, but if you wait until what you have to say is profound, there would be no posts here. It's the chaff that inspires the wheat.

Edit: I just thought about this post and how it relates to the thread, and decided to delete it rather than refine it, because I think it's lame and I don't even really agree with it fully. But since the topic of the thread is posts you delete, I thought I'd give you an example of what I would delete. It's everything above the word "Edit" here.

@glatt: My opinion is that you should post more stuff like that.

Thanks. Reading it again, I like it more. But there's still something about it I don't like. Can't put my finger on it.

That's what previewing, re-writing, previewing, re-writing, previewing, and re-writing is for. Of course, sometimes you can never "fix" it.

Yes because I go to spell check or look for something and it's gone. :smack:

Nope, but I tend to go back and edit a lot. Afterthoughts more than revisions.

*profundity deleted*

getting the 90% -100% percent crowd to weigh in on this may be problematic

If you can believe it, there are actually times when I do delete posts before hitting send. Quite a few. Looking at some of the stuff I've let live, you can imagine how retarded the cut ones were.

I let a lot of stuff by that I know might not reflect exactly well on me, because I want to be as honest as I can. I have to edit other people's stuff all day, so I can't keep from self-editing, but my standards for myself are far more lax :lol:

Pretty much what you see is exactly what I'm thinking at the moment, even if that happens to random, unrelated, posting under the influence, angry, self-loathing, contradictory, happy, weird, or otherwise. Weird gets deleted more than anything. Also, I don't like to reply to posts from people talking about the really difficult times in their lives, e.g., death, illness, hard financial times. Everything I type seems overly trite and formulaic, or harsh, or self-absorbed. You know, I want to tell about something that's happened to me that's similar to what the other poster writes, and then I realize they really don't need nor want to hear about it, so I delete it. But then it looks like I don't care because I haven't chimed in, so I feel like I should say something, so I make something lame and keep that about 50% of the time.

All in all, dead posts account for maybe 20% -- quite a bit, when I think about it. I can think of one recent one that is going to join its brothers in the "dude. just shut up and go to bed, you're stoned." graveyard shortly.


lol Griff

ha ha ha