I am both embarrassed and disheartened about how many posts I type and then scrap

[Atticus]

because what needs doing cannot be discussed.

As Sean Connery put it, "What are you prepared to do?"

(This is the heavily edited version of my OP.)

[secondwind]

1. Am intrigued now....

[Goonch]

2. ;-{)

[efhmc]

3. I often feel that way about replies and then think it is is just not worth the effort so

use other avenues for what I want to say.

[Bettie]

4. I do the same

all the time. Probably more than half of my posts are typed, retyped and then discarded.

[Rebl2]

25. Same here

A lot of times I write it and figure I will be attacked for what I say, so I don’t post. Recently I decided to post my reply to something and sure enough I was attacked.

[Bettie]

32. My fear is the people who purposefully

misinterpret what I've said, to try to make it something other than what I said.

I'm willing to take the heat for unpopular opinions.

[Towlie]

5. I do that too. The reason I decide not to post after reading what I wrote is usually...

 
←

Oh, never mind.

[jcgoldie]

12. Same here...

.... (redacted)

[KPN]

24. Lol. Thanks for the chuckle!

[marble falls]

6. Most of the half I do post probably shouldn't have been posted either. I appogize.

[rampartc]

13. +1

[MiHale]

7. Same here...

So many times rereading what I typed out I clear it. Many reasons.

[malaise]

8. Ha

[boston bean]

9. I'm not. 😂

Just kidding! 😜

[secondwind]

11. lol 😂

[harumph]

10. As the saying goes "Never telegraph your actions."

[world wide wally]

14. .

[HAB911]

15. for sure, same here

[marie999]

16. I think it is a good thing to do.

You can get it all out of your system without being deleted. I do it all the time.

[dalton99a]

17. I wish that motherfucker would hurry up and

[MadLinguist]

20. yeah, the POS already showed the crack in the second Vi

[stillcool]

18. my inner editor has issues

the should or shouldn't can be exasperating.

[Frustratedlady]

19. I think most of us do that, but it's a good exercise. For one, you get your thoughts down and

clear some of the garbage we carry around out of our brain...even for a short time.

My inner self talks to me all the time. Sometimes it's even right. Sometimes we argue the points ad nauseum, that's when a post and its responses straighten everything out. LOL If the post doesn't make sense, scrap it. The exercise keeps us sane.

[ancianita]

21. Same here. Another way of looking at it is, you pick your battles. What's worth dealing with.

We learn to make concessions to our priorities. We just can't address everything. Don't be embarassed about being judicious. Besides, writing is thinking, and sometimes you just have to write to get your thoughts clearer for yourself, which is a good thing.

I feel okay about it when I realize that Biden uses the same scrapping process every damn day.

[Martin Eden]

22. Embarrassed for yourself, or for a portion of the DU community ...

... which will respond with attacks of righteous indignation rather than calmly discuss the ideas you so carefully considered and worded before deciding to scrap?

[KPN]

23. Wow. You read my mind this morning!

Good to know I'm not just a unique outlier.

[FakeNoose]

26. Sometimes it's just, "Wait a minute do I really want to post this?"

It happens to me a lot, the hesitation to post something tells me what I needed to know. If I can't be clear about a subject, then maybe I don't have a full grasp, or maybe I haven't thought it all the way through.

Scrapping a post that's not "ready for prime time" is often the BEST way to go.

[nevergiveup]

27. On average I send out about 20%

of the posts I type. I can't explain this but my longer more thought out posts are the ones I am most likely to scrap.

[PCIntern]

28. K and R and...

I know exactly what you mean. In fact, the other day, I had a post removed because I must have had the bad luck of having my jury be the entire DU fan club of Marjorie Taylor Greene - i won't repeat my post of course. I've been posting here since 2004 and had my share of posts removed, but this is the first one wherein I said "WHAT!!??" out loud. Whatever....

I had thought about posting it but was certain that it was OK....what do I know? I just work here.

[Atticus]

29. Well, above all, we have to be RESPECTFUL of those trying to destroy us.

Have mercy! I just about GAGGED as I typed that!

[Elessar Zappa]

30. Sometimes I do that, yes.

But overall I find the moderation on this site very reasonable. I've had some posts deleted but most were deserved.

[cate94]

31. I've been here a long time.

In fact, I came here when having a post count of 1000 meant you were an old timer. As you can see, I never kept up. Deleting what I write seems to be a favorite past time of mine.

And, of course, somethings just can’t be said.