Long posts & copy/paste

Where is the poll!!

sometimes

believe it or not, if I compose a particularly long rant then I get it out first then restructure it

sometimes it makes sense

Nope
I always check a long post, for continuity, that they make sense, and that I've made my point without careening off on a tangent. Not the short ones though

It's why the short ones sometimes don't make sense

I believe it is for those rare forum glitches where the page times out without posting the reply.

Alfa Vincent said:

Where is the poll!!

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Got distracted between, posting the original thread & the actual poll

All fixed

Long post

Anyhoo - I've got into the habit of doing so, because phone mode can be a bit of a 'mare as afar as losing long posts goes

What are these long posts you speak of



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EDIT: Doh! DP beat me to it :rant:

ADF said:

What are these long posts you speak of



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EDIT: Doh! DP beat me to it :rant:

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I also beat you to your 10K post thread :lol:

I tend to hit submit, then re-read it and edit where necessary.

No. It's a good practice, but I've never got into the habit.

I also rarely proof read it as well as I should, and regularly go back and re-edit multiple times.

Same as Bazza.

I always read it back but, and I don't know why, I immediately spot errors on the posted version I just couldn't see in the draft.

73GTVJim said:

I immediately spot errors on the posted version I just couldn't see in the draft.

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I found that too, so I just skipped the draft and went straight to editing the final copy :lol:

My posts are always impeccably structured and perfectly worded, plus I type fast, so I don't often need to save/copy/edit or whatever.

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I don't really do long posts (you're shocked.. I can tell :lol I've tried but by the time my two fingered typing has got what I want to say onto the page someone else has probably made the point anyway.

Always copy, 'laying out a long un' is something best done only once in my opinion