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13-02-2007, 12:15 PM
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| |  Do You Ever Erase Posts or Threads Before Submitting?
Do any of you ever begin to post new threads and/or respond to posts and then erase/delete them before you press "submit"? I do it all the time. If there's anywhere that I should feel appreciation, understanding, welcome and support, it's here. I hope you do, too. |
13-02-2007, 02:08 PM
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Juls I think everybody has at one time or another. Prolly us more than anybody else. |
14-02-2007, 02:23 AM
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Juls, I do that too. Its harder to express some things with out visual body language to go with it. At least we have some of those cartoon characters to help us from being misunderstood too much. I find that writing here also keeps my brain from becoming too stale. |
14-02-2007, 07:39 AM
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I still delete messages I've typed...  |
14-02-2007, 10:00 AM
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One in a thousand maybe... If I am responding to something, I respond, I don't worry about what others think about my opinion or what is in my head, I just respond or create and get things out there to be discussed and thrown about. |
15-02-2007, 03:07 AM
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juls, I may have once or twice done so in the very beginning, but I don't do so now. I do however re-read, maybe edit to make sure I am communicating what it is I'm trying to say. Also, sometimes my thoughts flow too fast, sometimes too slow and then typing it and making them match is not always easy.
I do know that I've heard said, others have done this though. I just can't afford to frustrate myself in this area, so I push on and just hit post. Instead, I end up frustrating myself in other areas.
What has happened at times is somehow and someway I've messed up posting after I've taken my time to respond or post and this can be most frustrating beyond belief, if I don't just throw up my arms, and accept and say the hell with it. Now, to prevent me from doing this again, I highlight and copy onto my clipboard everything I want to say before attempting a lengthy post, bc if then I mess up and lose it, I've still got it. |
15-02-2007, 06:42 AM
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| | Hi Juls
I have done that way to many times in the past ,, once spent an hour writing some one and when I went to put an attachment on the end ,, I lost the hole thing ,,, My PC came close to getting smashed to peices that day ,, If my PC omly knew how many times I almost Smashed it ,, it would probably Quit on me ,,,, Hey wait a minute ,, I did have to go to the shop cause it had a melt down  almost forgot that
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