Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Snarf Zagyg]

Not really worth a separate thread, but I'm curious, and figure I'll post my idle question to the fine people riding the Pineapple Express.

What are your views and practices regarding editing your own posts, after you post them, on EN World?

I will frequently correct typos if I discover them right after posting. I don't know why I seem unable to edit before I post. It feels weird, but I've edit posts I've made months or even years ago if I happen to come across them again and notice a typo. I don't bother making an end note that I've done so.

If I make a substantive change, especially if do to a change of mind on a particular topic, then I will make a note that I changed it.

I like how some other forum platforms will, when you edit a post, present you with a field explaining the reason for the edit. EN World doesn't do this and I always feel like I'm committing a venial sin when I edit after posting.

See, I can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and I betray my own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words ... it's a betrayal, and it's a sin, MNBlockhead. It's a sin.

Haha, well now
We call this the act of writing
But there are several other very important differences
Between writers and editors that you should know about

Sin, baby, sin, baby I like to post for all the clout
But I only do the kind of stuff that Anais Nin would write about
So put your hands on the keyboard and I'll bet you'll google smut
Yes, you're Siskel, yes, you're Ebert
And you'll give me two thumbs up
You think my essays are overmuch
So many words you're going to drown
AD&D's been covered, you think you suffered
Like adjectives surrounding a noun
Use my vocabulary to flex, never reaching apex
Just like a slippery slope you are inclined
To make me post an hour early just like Daylight Savings Time

You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but sinners
So let's refuse to edit our work 'cuz we ain't no winners
(Do it again now)
You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but sinners
So let's refuse to edit our work 'cuz we ain't no winners
(Gettin' sinful now)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I do edit my posts, but usually only for typos, clarity or expansion.

The last happens when I’m composing a longish post on a board and remember things I needed to include as opposed to when I compose a post in something like Notes, then cut & paste it.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Yeah, I'm sort of the same. I remember how people hyped In-N-Out, but when one finally opened in my city in Texas, I was pretty "meh" about it. It was fine, i suppose, but the way I do a basic burger at home is nearly as fast, and has a lot more flavor and character. Plus, I don't have to wear pants* at home.


* Although, to be fair, wearing pants is a generally a Very Good Idea™ when grilling.

Safety first so no grilling wienies

 

[Ryujin]

I don't actively look to do edits on my posts but if I get notification of a reaction, then notice typos or a spot where my brain was moving far faster than my fingers (the same thing that makes me stutter occasionally), I can't leave without fixing it.

 

[Gradine]

In-n-Out has some pretty distinct variance, like it genuinely matters which one you go to. Like they added one to my hometown (right before the cult took over) and it was genuinely trash; the one where I live now is excellent though.

Animal style is a trap though.

 

[gnarlygninja]

Going no-contact with family is a rough decision, but it really does become a necessity at a certain point. My parents and I ended up no contact 3ish years ago, and one of my siblings also broke off with them last year. It's a complicated story (it's family drama, so of course it's long and convoluted), but it's also been much, much better for me, my spouse, my kids, and my sibling since then.

And since it's a family thing, of course there is some unfortunate tertiary damage. While there are obviously members of my extended family that I still talk to, there are a few who got cut off with my parents. Mostly relatives that I ever only interacted with through my parents; I wouldn't have a problem seeing them again, there just hasn't been a funeral or wedding that would kickstart it. And there are a couple of relatives who are very close to my parents that I'm not strictly cut off from but I generally avoid dealing with.

I guess I should have been a little more clear here. I understand going no contact with family members over serious things, I have an uncle for instance that big chunks of my family have completely shunned for very valid reasons (he's an unpleasant naughty word who thinks people should defer to him for being the oldest child, and that's the least of the reasons). Some of them have also gone no contact with my grandma, since he lives with her and because she's defended him. I get that. It's just specifically when the reasons are inconsequential or silly.

 

[Thomas Shey]

* Although, to be fair, wearing pants is a generally a Very Good Idea™ when grilling.

Or pan-frying, far as that goes.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Animal style is a trap though.

 

[Evaniel]

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Between this and the Bloodhound Gang filking, you are in rare form today.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I guess I should have been a little more clear here. I understand going no contact with family members over serious things, I have an uncle for instance that big chunks of my family have completely shunned for very valid reasons (he's an unpleasant naughty word who thinks people should defer to him for being the oldest child, and that's the least of the reasons). Some of them have also gone no contact with my grandma, since he lives with her and because she's defended him. I get that. It's just specifically when the reasons are inconsequential or silly.

There’s a strong tendency for several people in my family to react first THEN think. As a result, my Mom has been on the giving AND receiving end of cutting off family members more than once.

In one case, the family member was (literally) insane, and interacting with her in person caused Mom’s BP to skyrocket. Mom continued to help her out, though only anonymously through intervening family. Face-to-face dealings were almost nil.

That person’s older brother retaliated by cutting off my Mom. He died without a reconciliation.

When my Mom’s sister died a couple years ago, that made her kids co-owners of a house she co-owned with my Mom. Mom has been trying to divest herself of ownership of that house for decades, so she asked my cousins to buy her out. The middle cousin reacted in a way that I cannot express here without violating the ToS; the other 2 were silent in the face of the unhinged tirade.