How often have you posted something you regret at DU?

[el_bryanto]

Just out of curiosity

Bryant

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	Regularly
	0 (0%)
	More often than I would like
	2 (40%)
	Occasionally
	1 (20%)
	Rarely
	1 (20%)
	Never - I stand by everything I've said
	1 (20%)
	You should regret posting this bullshit poll
	0 (0%)
	I like to vote!
	0 (0%)
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[hrmjustin]

1. More often than I would like.

[yeoman6987]

3. Add me to that too

[winter is coming]

2. Other: less often than I regret what other people post.

[Sanity Claws]

4. More often than I like

It constantly amazes me how people totally misconstrue a post and claim to take offense at the post or claim that it is bigoted or prejudiced. How do they get through the day? They must live in a constant state of offense. Piss poor way to live.
It makes me regret ever bothering with posting anything.

[tularetom]

5. I stop myself from posting something at least once a day

Because I know somebody will be offended, or misunderstand the intent of my post. I give a lot of thought to the consequences of my posts before posting them, so I rarely regret anything that makes it to the forum.

[NCTraveler]

6. Right when I think I have shit the bed....

someone comes along and makes a bigger ass of themselves. I often consider it an act of kindness.

[herding cats]

7. More often than I would like.

My writing doesn't always convey my intent well, and I've accidentally used iffy sources before.

[bvf]

8. Rarely.

And not once for anything that ended up being hidden.

[angryvet]

9. once

to my first post and was punished.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. So often that I know I will once again

slink away, but your post made me giggle.

So I decided to let you know.

Now back to the USCG press release.

[TexasProgresive]

11. Once it was a lame attempt at irony that I tried

to immediately claw it back but the person who was insulted evidently has me on ignore. The other was not a post, it was an wrongful alert.

Some of my posts have been less than smart. Sometimes I don't click "post my reply" after some thought, rarely have I self-deleted a post.

[NM_Birder]

12. How can you say something and then regret what you said ?

The DU culture of policing what, how and when it's OK to say something is a terrible influence to take with you to the real world. And a LOT of people I have come in contact with here don't seem to remember that this site is not the real world.

If someone has a problem with what I've said, that's thier problem, not mine, but that's not to say it isn't entertaining to banter back and forth, when confronted by a do-gooder I don't regret what I say, and I very rarely appologize, .......that goes for my actual life, as well as my comments on this site.

[el_bryanto]

13. Well if you say something that turns out to be factually incorrect for example

Or you say something hurtful to someone without realizing it.

Bryant

[olddots]

14. Every thing I do has got to be funky

and stupid .

[Blue_In_AK]

15. I am generally very careful about what I post.

I'm not crazy about conflict, and I know if I said what I think, a lot of times I'd end up in a big argument with someone, so I just keep my thoughts to myself.

[hunter]

16. I'm shameless.

Conditioning a little kid to respond to shame or guilt or punishment is hard work. Past the age of five maybe it's just not going to happen.

In many ways I was a feral child. My parents were feral children too. My wife and I tried for better than that.

I like to think I have a very highly developed ethical system. But shame, guilt, and punishment play only a small roll, entirely intellectual.

I'm a bad Catholic. My kids are bad Catholics.

My youngest kid's first communion, post pedophile priest scandals, was held in the open so parents could keep an eye on things. Four priests in the four corners of the church, where every parent could watch them.

My youngest kid and our junior priest were whispering and often laughing out loud for at least fifteen minutes. Other parents were beginning to give me very serious stink-eye.

What the hell could a little kid confess to that was so funny???

I myself must confess I was proud.

[PersonNumber503602]

17. Occasionally

Despite my low post count now, I've been an off-and-on member of DU for over a decade (no, I've never been banned. I've never even had a post hidden/deleted) I'm usually pretty reasonable with my posts and I try not to be an abrasive person. Even when I disagree with people, I'm able to handle it in a way to not upset people. So I've never regretted anything I've said because I upset people or anything. What I've regretted in the past was posting too much personally identifying information that I felt could have been used to connect to the "real" me. I'm not an important person, so it's not that big of a deal, but I really prefer for that to be kept on the down low. I've put in some effort to craft my "public" facing profile that I use to interact with the real world, and I'd rather keep my activities on sites like this from corrupting it. heh. Which is odd, because I don't really behave in a way I should be ashamed of.

So whenever I feel like I had some leakage, I stop using the account and come back with something new a month or so later. I'm a bit ridiculous with that. So yeah, I sometimes regret posting too much information. I'll probably regret posting this post. It's been nice knowing you guys. Kidding. This should be fine now that I removed my social security number from the fifth sentence.