Post posting traumatic stress

[Axeman]

I know that this could be interpreted as admitting to certain inadequacies in my mental balance, spiritual health or social life, but after posting on the other two message boards I visit, I've noticed that on occasion, I get unnecessarily irate when a post I've taken some time to write, and in some cases research, has to be edited.

I don't mind that it has to be corrected, but sometimes I get momentarily pissed-off at my edit being noted by the forum software, as if my effort has been somehow stained by both my own lack of attention and an unsympathetic forum designer. Or both.

Does anyone else's bottom lip curl under their top row of teeth, as if to offer some expletive, upon realising their error. That will be marked as edited for all of their online contemporaries, and, indeed, adversaries to collectively snigger at?

Naturally, I imagine that this occurrence particularly frustrates Huguenot. What with having to amend his purposefully arcane and carefully crafted posts designed to promote his own supposedly superior intellect, and to baffle seemingly lesser mortals such as the poster Jalapeno. I should know, I admit to sometimes being guilty of even greater pomposity, eh, RosieH.

So, East Dulwich. Am I alone*?

*Don't even think of lying. Your denial will only confirm my suspicions.

[Huguenot]

Lol! I did get annoyed with myself earlier, since in my conviction I'd substituted pronouns with indecent regularity, to the point where the post could be interpreted a million different ways.

Each time I reread it I recognised an alternative interpretation and had to correct it.

By the time I'd clarified it, it's another 'edited x times', and I was mildly irritated that this should be interpreted as flip-flopping rather than sorting out loose prose.

I reassured myself by deciding that no-one would notice.

Now I realise that you bloody do.

[Narnia]

Shouldn't 'loose prose' be spelt 'lose prose' as everyone these days seems to spell 'lose' as 'loose'? Am I loosing it?

[ClareC]

I tend to use my phone to post... often you can't easily see the entire post until you have posted it(especially if you attach a previous post) - that is the point you notice the "predictive text" changes / typos! V annoying!

[RosieH]

4 times Huguenot. 4 times.

[????]

Save your self the embarrassment of having to edit clever posts by constantly posting crap

[red devil]

..and keep it short and sweet

[daizie]

BRING Twitter to real life by following strangers in the street and telling them any old crap that comes to mind

[red devil]

cue edit daizie...''oops wrong thread!''