Have a racing feeling in your heart sorta like when you are riding a roller coaster and going up and then coming back down when you view some threads? Let me clarify: you read a post here and it makes you mad, so you respond with a post that could start a flame fest. When you check back with the site, do you get an uneasy feeling in your stomach like you do in riding a roller coaster in anticipation that you have been blasted by the poster you "dissed" or is arguing with? It has happened with me several times; however, not as much as it used to.
schwinnnng Garth "It feels like, like, when I'm on a roller coaster" sorry, but that's the first thing I thought about.
yes sometimes I get that feeling as soon as I post, or in a few minutes. then I go back and edit out some on the more annoying comments. But when I go back, I'm hoping the other guy hasn't seen it yet, since I know it's excessive. here's something I try to do that helps: when I post something I know is contentious towards someone, I like to go back and take out the worst paragraph. it's usually something unnecessary and over the top. bottom line is the old saying: Choose your words carefully. You may have to eat them.
Thanks Friendly for the only *real* response to this question. I didn't mean this thread to be a "free post" one, guys.
Once or twice. Usually I don't diss anyone here because I think getting in an argument on the internet is kind of silly. Unless it's a newbie posting a moronic trade thread. I don't post in the D&D very often although I lurk there every day. Everyone there is pretty much stuck in their personal belief system and no amount of debate is ever going to change that IMO. But it sure is fun to read and I'm glad it's there. I usually avoid all the flaming and tend to stick to my lame one-liners, tired Airplane quotes, and inappropriate pictures. Seems to work for me.
Most of the time, I'll post something and then hit submit. Then right after that, I'll think of something and add it with an edit. After that, I hit refresh 30 times every second so that I'll know when the other guy, or girl, posts. Then I'm back posting something else...unless it wasn't directed to me in any way. IIRC, I was like that when I first started posting. This was the first and only BBS I've posted on, so I was kind of nervous in the beginning. My heart kind of sped up just seeing my post. I was afraid someone would come and say, "Stupid n00b, you suck!" or something like that. After a while, I got more comfortable. Maybe someday, I'll post and won't hit refresh 30 times just to see who posts next. edit: Doh...here I go again. Yeah, I don't usually diss or argue either.
Sure, Manny. Last night (wasn't it last night??) I posted in DD's "Kill Arafat!!!" thread, after I said in the thread I wasn't going to. (go figure) When I looked at it today, I thought about deleting it. I usually don't post in those and I wasn't too satisfied with what I DID post. And I had a bit of a funny feeling last night after hitting the submit button... something like, "why the hell did I do that??" Then I felt kinda odd when I went to check it out later. It's a message board, but you (we) often let ourselves get fairly invested in it and frequently post things we might think twice about in "real life". Don't worry about it.
I know *exactly* what you're saying, Manny. It's easy to get caught up in a flame war (emotions and convictions run deep), and post something you probably shouldn't. When I post something like that, I sometimes come back with a bit of trepidation -- not for the rebuttal, but because I'm embarrassed about my lack of tact.
Exactly how i felt when i started posting except I was as compulsive about editing and refreshing re: posts. But I like to see my threads get read and responded too
Cohen, Not coffee, but Mello Yellos. Ah, this thread is really sorta a "miss" thread (threads are either "hit or miss"). It is just one of those things that is easier to describe in talking than putting down on paper (although some people knew what I was talking about like Friendly, GreenVegan, and Cohen).
Yeah I got that feeling. My first few posts, I started talking trash about Barry Bonds, just to get the fire goin, and shortly after that, I was beginning to wonder if those first few posts would have been my last.... Apparently not though.
