Your Posting Behaviour

Descriptions of the options:

1. Fire and Forget - You type your post quickly and submit it. Grammar and spelling are not important - it's what you want to say that matters. You never use the preview option, or re-read your posts to check whether or not you need to edit for clarity.

2. Careful, but Confident - You sometimes preview longer posts, and occasionally scan through your comments to check for errors. Punctuation and grammar are not so important, but you don't want to look stupid. If you later spot a mistake, you're unlikely to bother re-editing your comment.

3. Anally Retentive - You give great consideration to your use of English, correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. You ALWAYS preview your posts, and read through several times, re-editing for clarity and to correct any errors. After posting you often use the edit button if you spot a mistake, or think of a more elegant way to express yourself.

(For the record, I'm a number 3) ;-)

I'm fundamentally no. 3; but I've been getting a bit busy these days, and sometimes resort to no. 2 or even 1, but of course, the more hurried, the greater the mistake, and then I might be too tired to correct any more. Eventually I might even out over all three styles depending on where, when, and what I post.

Private Message for silverpoint: My PM box is full, and I don't have the time to unload some. So I'll just tag my answer here. Re: "I've broken the forum software, and it made three different threads."

I just replied before I got your message. It seems to be working right. The strange split in the single thread your created seems to be a phenomenon called spawning identities in space-time continuum caused by a infinitesimal trip {"temporal purturbation") to the past and then back to the future from the past's point of view, leading to a chain reaction of parallel entities in this single universe as opposed to single entities in a multiplicity of parallel universes. Time to call the ghost busters

suggestion: The poll could also have been a public poll/multiple poll; naw, forget the multiple poll, but public might be fun.

Silverpoint's ghost thread said:

Ignore this - sorry - forum doesn't like me ;-)
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The forum software didn't like it when I kept re-editing the poll and spat out several versions of it.

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Of course we like you, Silverpoint. It's just that straightforward love might make the discussion dull; hence the reason d'etre for the love-hate relationship. I think your second line is a good analogy of the continuouse creation model of the origin of the universe where on the other side of our sink lies a fountain of creation where matter flows out as water from a spring or faucet.

I'm No. 3 and often wish I had Mike Cash's propensity for short and quick to the point posts, or Maciamo's fire and forget tactic. I hate errors in my own posts and re-read and edit often to correct for grammar, spelling, and clarity. Sometimes it takes me an hour to post a reply and I feel as if I am answering an essay question back in university where I must make myself completly articulate. Nontheless I enjoy it.

In new forums, I'm most often three. I preview most of my posts, and most often reword them somehow. On the forum that I've longest been a member, I do more fire and forget. It is a rough and tumble forum, but the people there do know me well, and most respect my opinion, even if it isn't said as well as I could say it.

Female Cat suspected of mutilating 88-yr old lady's toes

Saitama -- On Oct. 6, just three weeks ago, the most bizarre thing happened when an 88-yr-old senile lady was found in her bed in a Saitama facility for the elderly with all her toes on her right foot gone. The toes that were gone up to the first joints were not recovered, the police said, and parts of her bones were missing.

The facility staff learned of the accident when the woman's roommate buzzed for help at around 5 am after finding the victim moaning and bleeding in the foot. She was immediately ambulanced to a nearby hospital for treatment. The five toes appeared to have been completely chewn off; she also had a deep scratch on the right leg.

Health officials found bloody paw prints on the woman's bed and the floor, reportedly leading to a window of a first-floor room that was open about 30 centimeters at the time, but when a 40-cm-long female cat, about 5 yrs old, with blood stains around the mouth and on the teeth was spotted later in the afternoon, they became suspicious of the cat, and made a citizen's arrest to hand her over to the police.

She immediately became the prime suspect. Surprisingly she was still purring and smacking her lips deliciously amid all the fuss about the puss. She was identified as a resident in the compound of the home in Kitasaitama, Saitama Prefecture.

Since her arrest on the 6th, animal experts have come to her aid. Shizue Noda, an animal rights activist with a group called Animal Support Mate, told in a press conference, "Cats do not often get a chance to taste human toes. Their teeth are not powerful enough to cut through the bones. In order to do that, they need to nibble at it for quite some time, but cats are not that patient."

Tokio Tonouchi, head of Tonouchi Vet. Clinic, told Shukan Bunshun, "I've never heard of abything like it in 40 yrs of practice. A dog could bite off a toe, but for a cat's sharp teeth that's impossible. It would be quite painful (for the victim) and there would have been bite marks left after."

Hirokazu Tsuji, head of Japan Vet. Association, agreed; "That's impossible. It was probably some other form of carnivore."

Sengoku Kasai, a Tokyo veterinarian of 33 yrs, also dismissed the claims about the cat's alleged crime by drawing attention to an average cat's short attention span. "A cat cannot hold attention for that long. To chew them off, a cat would have had to chomp away for ages."

Another vet said a cat does not attack anything bigger than itself. Animal experts have urged the police to reinvestigate the case based on such reasoning.

On the contrary, a doctor of legal medicine stated the case of a cat that ate a putrifying corpse, hence not everything from the vets are absolute truths. Had the police conducted a thorough investigation of the cat's red stains and feces, the mystery could have been solved by now. The police, however, have flatly refused to carry out any investigation on two grounds; 1) that the police are not required to investigate cat crimes 2) the high walls of the facility are too high for anything else than a cat to cross over.

Nevertheless the police have taken note of comments, and put in a humanitarian word for the cat.

Kasukabe Branch said:

We've had the cat since Oct. 7. Normally we put strays down if no one claims ownership in three days, but the police asked us to hold on to this particular cat just yet.

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A police spokesperson told Sukan Bunshun; "We don't know whether it was the cat."

(Compiled from reports by Mainichi, Oct. 8, Sonwu Jong, Joson Ilbo, Oct. 26, Bryan Connell, Shukan Bunshun, Oct. 20, Japan Times Oct. 9, 14, Japan Today Oct. 9, 13 reports, all Tokyo I think)

edit: Any admin, moderator, or advisor, please separate this post. I meant to make it a new thread, but ended up here. Sorry about this.

Good job I read through the entire post, lex, and saw the last sentence. I thought you had gone mad on us. As for the original question. Depends on what thread I am posting on. Never nember one, as I prefer good spelling and grammar. Number 2 I feel the thread warrants a short reply. I do this mostly in the Chit-chat section. If it is one of the more serious threads, then it is number 3. I feel that if I am discussing something serious then I need to put the point across in a clear and concise way.

Grammar is my best friend.

Doc

I am between 2 and 3. I don't really post long posts because-1) I can't 2) I hate the redundancy.

I try to be careful with my grammer since I'm not a native speaker and still not fluent in English, so I edit whenever I notice my mistakes.

I voted #2, but occasionally a #1. Like right now.

I do all three - it depends on the thread. But luckily, I can touch-type, so all my spelling errors get edited out as I type (except those due to sheer ignorance!). Grammar I can't vouch for, of course.

In most cases, I'm number two. I try not to be too meticulous because I feel that since this is merely a place for some friendly discussion I don't see the need too formal. But at times when it comes to longer post, I'm usually number three.

Generally I try to be a "3" - and I think I am. But .... sometimes .... after a coupla beers .... when someone's got me mad, or made me laugh ..... well .....

.... I usually try to aplogize later, though!

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Sensuikan San said:

But .... sometimes .... after a coupla beers ....

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I think we have to make an exception for drunk posting. I've done it myself on a couple of occasions and usually regret it in the morning. ;-)

Silverpoint said:

I think we have to make an exception for drunk posting. I've done it myself on a couple of occasions and usually regret it in the morning. ;-)

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Ah yes! Yes indeed!

Curiously - they've been the source of most of my problems ......... and a great number of my reputation points!

Weird. Whaddya do,eh?

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I'd be closer to "careful, but confident". I tend to care more about the content and menaing of my words that the structure and grammar to express these ideas. I almost never preview my post. My posting style would rather be "post first, then edit immediately after (hopefully before anybody reads) to add things as the idea come to my mind". Because I tend to type according to the flow of ideas in my mind, I hardly pay any consideration to re-reading my posts, except when someone points out a problem or quotes me. In fact, one of my biggest problems when I write articles for JREF (esp. the travel guide) is that I do not take the time to spell check or re-read, and sometimes I realise only months later that one word is missing or mistyped.

I'm #3, but I don't always preview. I certainly am anal retentive, though. There's no denying that.

Pachipro said:

I'm No. 3 and often wish I had Mike Cash's propensity for short and quick to the point posts, or Maciamo's fire and forget tactic.

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I am not "fire and forget". I am certainly fire (and often write in a hurry between 2 things, which can be irritating when I don't have time to finish what I want to write), but I care about the words I use (e.g. 'most' does not equal 'all', and 'East Asian' is not the same as 'Asian' or 'South-East Asian') don't forget what I wrote (although I may confuse who wrote what among others' posts).

Silverpoint said:

(For the record, I'm a number 3) ;-)

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We know that, wasn't you, that always get annoyed on spelling, and grammar errors?

For myself it depends on the thread, and the post i want to make, in a chit chat thread about some fun stuff, i dont care that much, i just write, but in a more important thread, were is a real disquision is going on, i check it a bit.

im studying english grammar at the moment, its a bummer sometimes haha, but i guess it can be worser!!!

Dutch Baka said:

im studying english grammar at the moment, its a bummer sometimes haha, but i guess it can be worser!!!

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Worser, WORSER?!? Arrrgg. How can you?
(Yes, I know your taking the mickey)
Actually since you joined Jref, your English spelling and grammar has improved.

Mycernius said:

Worser, WORSER?!? Arrrgg. How can you?
(Yes, I know your taking the mickey)
Actually since you joined Jref, your English spelling and grammar has improved.

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worser? huh, i cant say that say that?

hihi, thanks mike... that really makes me happy!!! arigato

I'm number 3. I find it personally embarrassing to post something, anything with grammatical or spelling errors. Even for a short post, I'll look it over carefully before I hit the submit button. And yeah, there's been more than a few times when I've posted something, then went back to edit when I found a mistake or thought of a better way to say something I already had written. I don't mind being anal in that regard, I don't have a life anyway, so it's no big deal.

hmm...I type fast and do look over what i've written, sometimes not worrying about my spelling, im a mix of all 3 of them, depends on what sort of mood im in. eh?

Anally retentive (does this mean that #1 is diarrhetic? )

I don't do preview because I rarely put up images/links/code stuff that have the chance of getting messed up ; I just write text, usually.

I reread my posts and edit them frequently because a lot of times people misunderstand me. In forums, misunderstanding others is not uncommon, so I always have to be careful of that. I also want to make sure my ideas flow well, because people usually have a hard time following my arguments, I think.

This post, though, is more along 1 or 2. I've only been away for 2 days and now I got s a lots a threds 2 b catching uppy ons!!!! WEeeee!!!!

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Anally retentive (does this mean that #1 is diarrhetic? )

I don't do preview because I rarely put up images/links/code stuff that have the chance of getting messed up ; I just write text, usually.

I reread my posts and edit them frequently because a lot of times people misunderstand me. In forums, misunderstanding others is not uncommon, so I always have to be careful of that. I also want to make sure my ideas flow well, because people usually have a hard time following my arguments, I think.

This post, though, is more along 1 or 2. I've only been away for 2 days and now I got s a lots a threds 2 b catching uppy ons!!!! WEeeee!!!!

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Hehehe, what a happy post ! As for your first remark, I guess you could also call it cathartic.

The Latin word catharsis, from the Greek Katharsis, has several related meanings:

1. Archaic and current medical term: The term catharsis has been used for centuries as a medical term meaning a "purging." Most commonly in a medical context, it euphemistically refers to a purging of the bowels. A drug, herb, or other agent administered as a strong laxative is termed a cathartic (note that cathartic is a noun in this sense).

2. Technical term of psychoanalysis: In the early 20th century, the term catharsis was used by psychoanalysts to describe an intense emotional experience that helped resolve inner psychological conflict-- in a sense, "purging" the mind.

3. Another meaning under the heading of 'purging' can concern body and soul : in religion, it concerns efforts made to come to terms with guilt and sin, as by penance such as by chastisement (in that word, the meaning of punishment has taken over from the original sense of purification); a testimony to the age of this use is the very name of the Cathars (a medieval sect)

4. Current general usage: As with many medical terms, this one has entered common use in this sense, but again usually in a metaphoric way: an intense emotional experience that is in some way beneficial. Cathartic is the adjectival form.

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I think I'm number 3 - you put something on the net and it stays there forever x)

I'm completely different when I chat with someone, then I just type and people complain about my bad typing... ^^;