How Many Times Do You Re-edit Your Post?

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19 Oct 2014, 3:58 pm

Anything between 3 to 10 times, I guess. I sometimes just linger on the 'post a reply' window for an HOUR before I'm comfortable with posting it. And after that, I may yet edit my post 2 or 3 times.


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19 Oct 2014, 4:31 pm

League_Girl wrote:
I would be careful when editing after posting and not do it too much, especially during an argument or debate, because people may stop trusting you or get skeptical and suspicious


No worries here League_Girl. Nobody ever pays any attention to me here either.


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19 Oct 2014, 5:43 pm

I edit my posts many times before posting. I never edit after posting, although I am never satisfied with the final post. Somehow, it never looks quite right, but I can't figure out why I am unsatisfied.



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19 Oct 2014, 6:30 pm

I edited my post a few times. On this post I have already edited once. What I find myself doing the most is changing my Avatar.


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19 Oct 2014, 7:10 pm

could range from 5 to 20 times. Sometimes i have this mild dyslexia that causes me to write

-Thinks instead of things
-My instead of me

I guess it is because my mind goes faster than my fingers can type :lol:



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19 Oct 2014, 9:12 pm

Suncatcher wrote:
could range from 5 to 20 times. Sometimes i have this mild dyslexia that causes me to write

-Thinks instead of things
-My instead of me

I guess it is because my mind goes faster than my fingers can type :lol:


All my re-edits have me wondering if I might be on the dyslexia spectrum. Is there such a thing as the dyslexia spectrum?


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19 Oct 2014, 9:21 pm

ImAnAspie wrote:
Does anyone else do this? Find a compulsion to re-edit until you're happy - no matter how small the corrections or how long it all takes?

I do the same thing... and then I end up deleting half my comments or posts. I say to myself that I'm "over-sharing," or that no one in their right mind will give a flying *** about what I've written.


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19 Oct 2014, 11:05 pm

1-3 times sometimes when I'm drafting something I say the words however I fail to type out the words so when I read the posted message I realize that I've left stuff out.


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20 Oct 2014, 3:01 am

So glad I'm not alone in this. :D Sometimes a post is okay, other times I'll see a mistake or something else that I could express better, so I might edit it 1-4 times. Sometimes before the initial submission, but usually after. It's like I don't see the mistakes until a post is actually made. It's frustrating.


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20 Oct 2014, 6:50 am

Whenever I'm about to post something or after posting it I don't re read it because I know I'm going to obsses over editing it lol



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20 Oct 2014, 1:50 pm

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20 Oct 2014, 2:04 pm

I edit what I say very often, maybe it's because everything that I say will potentially be held against me. Throughout my school years people took the p*** out of me because of things that I had noticed, the ways in which I phrased things, or my intonation (my tone of voice is monotone, unless I'm interested in something, then by comparison it's like Robin Williams' genie). So, unless I knew EXACTLY what I was going to say, I would pretty much say nothing at all. That feeling still pervades today, especially when I meet new people.


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20 Oct 2014, 3:16 pm

It varies. I used to edit them alot more due to my OCD being worse & posting without proofreading as much. Now I post alittle slower


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21 Oct 2014, 12:59 pm

I have a tendency to edit forum posts more than your average joe, so to speak. Similar to writing essays it helps me to start with a rough draft and then polish it up.

How do I delete a post? Does that require a minimum number of posts first, or do I need to PM a moderator or what? Please and thanks :)



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21 Oct 2014, 2:39 pm

blueblahbleh wrote:
I have a tendency to edit forum posts more than your average joe, so to speak. Similar to writing essays it helps me to start with a rough draft and then polish it up.

How do I delete a post? Does that require a minimum number of posts first, or do I need to PM a moderator or what? Please and thanks :)
You can only delete for a very short time if it's the last post in the thread. Mods tend to lock threads alot more than the delete posts.


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21 Oct 2014, 9:55 pm

Probably only once or twice...if it's a crucial detail I've left out, then I edit my post to add it, but if it's something like a punctuation error or a small typo, I just figure, "Ahh, it's okay, no one'll notice."


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