Anybody review their previous WP posts?

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Reviewing our previous WP posts through the 'Search User's Posts' function allows us to take inventory, and reassess our presence here on WP.

To reevaluate our older posts (within discussion thread topics) can shape our present, and future participation here on WP - hence, what's old can be new again!

Personally, I viewed my posts over the previous few months - I had readily seen those few topics needing additional focus (or refocus).

The discussion thread topics which piqued my interest mostly (not always) received two to three-dozen posts (two to three-dozen posts are usually more than enough posts in a disc. thread - as topics receiving over three-dozen posts can become too cumbersome to follow).

Personally, I feel that disc. topics receiving one to two-dozen posts are enough. Yet, again, the topics receiving 24 to 36 posts (in my opinion) generally indicates ample WP interest.

The older discussion-topics which may stand-out don't necessarily relate to any specific statistical values indicative of WP responses.

Any interesting insights gleaned from older posts?

Yes, I do. It's to remind me of things I've said and done and/or experienced in the past.

My life used to have a lot of certainty. It will again soon.

I've experienced so much emotional pain.

Peoples' massive lack of awareness.

(Unrelated to policeman).

I always review my posts. I like to look at the old posts I wrote like 8 or 9 years ago. I hate some of those though because I was going through a mini breakdown and badmouthed my family. I didn't mean any of it but I wish there was a way they could be removed, but I don't think the mods can do that.

I still get depressed, jealous, bitter, angry and anxious but to a lesser degree and I have learnt to love life and appreciate my lovely family.

Sometimes someone necros a thread, and you go back and see the beginning pages, and see old conversations. You may see old posts you made from years ago. And you may not always be proud of what you wrote. There were was one thread in which everyone including me descended into a brawl.

One guy got really crazy. He said something reasonable to me, and I asked him to elaborate ( in a way I thought was reasonable as well), and he just lost it, and accused me of being "one of the best loved people on Wrongplanet", but...(I guess he didn't think that was all of that- but I couldn't tell what his point was). And I didn't know I was so "well loved". I guess I shoulda sued that guy for slander! I guess my point is that everyone lost their cool. Nothing worse than seeing a bunch of aspies misbehaving.

But usually Im pleased, or not displeased, with my ancient posts. The site itself has evolved more than I have over the years.

I sometimes review my posts even soon after I've written them.

I frequently make typing and grammatical errors, or I just something to add. I tend to write in the present tense, even when I mean the past tense. So I have to make corrections, so I don't embarrass myself.

My minds works in spurts....so ideas tend to come in spurts....so I usually have to add something to an original post after I submitted it the first time.

A few months ago one member here bumped a topic he had started 15 years ago (the last post in the thread was 15 years ago too), just to carry on the political arguments that was going on in it. I mean, what the hell? Fancy carrying on a thread exactly where you left off 15 years later. I mean, 15 years is a long time but he carried it on like the last post was posted yesterday.

I've found that reviewing the previous few-months of posts is sufficient.

Sometimes. If I want to remember pieces of information (such as when in the year a certain conversation happened) or refer back to a previous thread if it is relevant in a conversation.

Unfortunately, I do recall posts written here that I since regret making. If there was an option to write a disclaimer on old posts, attached to the original post, I probably would. A note which explains that I have since changed my viewpoint on a topic, or have realised why I was wrong to act in such a way. So I could update the situation without reviving the thread itself, just in case someone was reading through my old posts.

On a different forum, one that I have been a member of for a longer period of time than I have spent here, a few members have contacted me before about my old messages. Topics I wrote about when I was sixteen.

I'll receive messages that will say something along the lines of "Hey, lately I've been obsessing over (subject) lately, and I found your posts on them (links to a few of my old threads). Anyway, you seem cool and I agree with you" etc. Then I'll reply to them explaining that I no longer agree with what I wrote. One time I wrote two pages in response detailing exactly why I disagreed with my younger self and which events altered my perspective. Now, on the plus side they found this helpful, but I certainly cringed a little at seeing what I wrote back then. I wouldn't want to erase these posts, but an option to write a disclaimer on them would be appreciated.

WP disc. thread on skim-reading (as it's natural to skim-read WP content) might be relevant:

THREAD: Story On The Effects Of Skim Reading.
viewtopic.php?t=382585

Sometimes out of curiosity to see how much my opinions have changed or evolved.
Most of the time I still agree with what I wrote back then.

I think what has evolved most is my understanding of how many other autistics view autism differently then I do. That has caused my view of autism to be more nuanced.

Prompted by this thread, I started reading my old posts. Here is my favorite post from my first month on WP:

I think my cat just farted on me...

I've been meaning to, but I just always forget or something...

...

Gonna do it now.

I don't.

Sometimes I review my posts

And emails

So next post won't overlap

I just reviewed my past year's posts. Enclosed are two threads which are a good representation of how I've advocated for novel (yet potentially workable) approaches to encouraging friendships:

* Fiction That Celebrates Friendship?
viewtopic.php?t=378003

* Platonic Versions Matchmakers Helpful W/ Friendships W/HFA?
viewtopic.php?t=381925