How many posts do you write but delete instead of posting?

[AgentZigzag]

I seem to be doing it quite a lot recently.

Am I losing my MN self esteem?

Or could it be something more serious do you think?

Maybe it's infectious and now you've all caught it from reading my OP?

I should really delete this before I get a telling off for not having a point or asking AIBU.

OK.

Thought of one.

AIBU to delete or should I...

none

Maybe you're deleting because after writing it all out, you realize it makes no difference what crap you say. Complacency? Boredom? The fad of MN wearing off maybe? I have times like that. Not this time, mind you.

Sometimes when I'm not feeling so strong I want to answer a thread on an issue I feel really strongly about, I type out the answer, and then I delete it. Just can't be bothered with the crazies crawling out of the woodwork sometimes, can't face the same old same old circular debates and self-justification. Just on my weaker days. Some days I feel combative and don't mind.

I do this all the time...not asintelligent funny as lots of the other posters so get cold feet!!

I type loads of posts then just leave the thread without posting it, mostly because I realise I'm only repeating what everyone else has said already, or because there's been too much time passing since the last post. Also, a lot of the time I read it back and feel like a chump.

I think if I took out of your post the word 'strong' and replaced it with 'bothered', it'd sum it up for me quite well

I leave a post at least once a day. Mostly because I realise that I don't really care.

hehe I do that Noodles.

Write a post

Go off to do a nappy change

Post

Realise I've posted in the middle of a bunfight

Get stuck in with really hard buns

About two-thirds of the time I write something then delete it.

Either because the thread has moved on/died since I started typing, or because what I was typing was such shit I couldn't bring myself to post it.

Just done it. With this thread.

G'wan AgainWhen, post what you were going to say (unless you were slagging me off )

Nearly all.

I do it quite a bit.

I tend to realise that something I have said WILL be deliberately misinterpreted/strawmanned or that it'll make no difference as those who disagree do so strongly and those who agree don't need convincing.

Me.
I have a tendency to be a bit blunt. Some might call it bitchy. Some would see it as showing off.
I self-identify way too easily
I know I tend to talk a lot in RL, so I don't want to compound it on-line.
Because sometimes it comes out sounding "Yeah! Me too!"
I don't want to get yelled out for making a thread zombie

I have a constant desire to post get a fucking grip on quite a few threads ...particularly self indulgent look at meeeeee and patently made up amusing threads where the OP seems to think her gcse grade D English makes her the new Stephen Fry of MN.

But I don't
(often)

About as many as I actually post. I am always giving up half way through.

Never, tis why it looks like I spout loads of shit. I really ought to invest in somesort of ferretfilter

....and a spacebar

I do this a lot. Sometimes I just can't be arsed bothered with the inevitable response to some questions. I don't know why I bother to read some of the OPs really - the outcomes are so predictable after a while. I'm still here though and still reading them

I do it a lot . Sometimes I think, oh you're being a birrofa twat, sometimes I think oh I can't be bothered or don't have time to defend my point, only to come back later to find someone else has said it so I just nod at the screen. Sometimes as others have said, I type quite a long post then think 'I really don't care enough...'

I type answers all the time, then tend to get all by the end of it.

Probably because I have nothing else to add really

I do it a lot, sometimes I get halfway through then I realise I can't be arsed. I do this on other forums as well.

All the time.

Glad it is not just me.