How often do you give up on a post?

[MrDan]

I haven't been on this forum long but I've already kicked the bucket on a large quantity of posts in creation. I'm curious if this happens to a lot of others as well, furthermore if there is a common cause for you to retract a post in creation.

For me personally it's when trying to offer support to others, there's already a plateau of greater advice from around the Web and others on the forum it can often seem like I'm just repeating said advice. I've a few more reasons but I'm curious to hear yours.

[Mental Elf]

On this forum I give up on them all the time, write out a long reply and then read it back and hit delete, as just my posts don't seem good enough, I'm not very interesting or helpful. I'm starting to think why I come on here now.

This all could be because I feel depressed right now though.

[ZooWeeMama]

^ You might not seem interesting to yourself, but to others you will be, I should think most of us are here because we want to hear other people's views and experiences.

[Belinda]

It does take a fair bit of social confidence to post on a forum as you're addressing an audience of shadowy figures lurking somewhere behind the computer screen without much evidence of what they think of you so I think it's quite a brave and difficult thing for anyone with social anxiety to do. I tend to delete most of what I write before I post it so you're definitely not alone.

[Unnecessarily Long Username_1]

Edit: Never mind.

[ZooWeeMama]

[Azi]

Ooh, about half of what I plan to post never sees the light of say (some would say it's the wrong half that makes it but oh well). Mostly it's because it seems a bit daft to me once it's there in black and white.

[Ezio]

I think about posting sometimes but then decide not too. Though if I end up starting a post I just post it. So I guess I never give up on a post I start typing but give up of a lot of posts when thinking.

[Indigo_]

When I'm reading threads I tend to think of a response in my head first. Sometimes I find someone has beaten me to it or has simply offered great advice in a much better way than I could have articulated so I just agree instead

[Olly.]

Yeah I do it quite often. Sometimes its because I decide mid post that the replies to something are better than what I could have said or what I was going to say, sometimes I just simply give up for no apparent reason if I can't be bothered to carry on typing the post

[Mo34]

When I posted here years ago I frequently deleted or heavily edited my posts.

I'm not so bad now, though I stick to mostly posting in fun threads where I feel my opinion probably doesn't really matter. I suppose back in the day I was like "omg people will be reading this". Now I'm more like "I doubt anyone's remotely interested in my thoughts on anything" I post anyway but I guess its from loneliness and an interest in other SA people.

[Silent Ninja]

I do quite often give up, thinking that my post would be the least helpful of all the replies to someone (although I mostly avoid trying to post replies to serious issues).

I have also written a reply, read it, changed it, read it again, changed it again then just deleted it and gone off to look if there's any new bike reviews on BikeRadar.

[umm]

It happens to about one in four posts. I may start writing and then I start irritating myself, or depressing myself, or BORING myself, particularly if my reply is a bit cranky. I just think: why I am I doing this? What am I adding to the world? Do I just want to hear the sound of my own voice? So I delete.

[Reptillian]

more often than I would like, reason, I don't have anything to say or I think no one is interested, but mainly because I don't think I make sense or people will not understand so think I'm a little dim.

[ArkoN]

I say probably more than i should on here. But even i delete things. I can spend a long time on a reply. Then give up amd delete.

[Focused]

Often. But not that often.

[The Lone Stranger]

Well I

[[Martin]]

^ Most excellent