Do you do this?

Of course I do. It's second nature to me. I care about my reader, and I respect myself. If my writing were sloppy, why would anyone take me seriously? It's also all too easy to get hosed by the spell-checker, wherein you write "stop being a cunt," and it comes out "stop being a can't."

I rarely proof and edit while composing. The composing window is too small. I'll finish composing, then click Add Reply. Then I can peruse the whole post. I almost always find typos, phrases I could have turned better, and other things that want changing. I go back into Compose mode at each edit that needs revising, then click Add Reply and pick up reading where I'd left off. This approach ensures that I don't overlook a change that needs making; plus--you know--German.

The one kind of edit I will not make, and which I think no one should, is the fraud edit, also known as the Croft Edit, where the original post is asinine, the poster gets called out on it, goes into the lying, preposterous post, completely changes it, and replies, "What are you talking about? That's not what I said at all."

In writing, in directing legitimate theater and movies, in cooking, in dressing oneself--oh, hell, in just about everything--editing is everything. Except for the Croft Edit, which is nothing.

I did like that preview box! Aside from the obvious differences from IMDb to this site, that is one of the first things I noticed. Yikes! No Safety Net!

That's what made him Hemingway!😉

Damn straight!

Eye yam two.



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hownos,you make me lol on a daily basis

I'm fairly fluent in Dewey now.I just insert the most apt word,I usually get the gist.

I can make you out just fine!

Good system
You do do pretty good work here

Agreed Mina.
If I add something significantly different or extra I'll mark it as edited.

I'll occasionally quote someone in my reply if they are the Arvin type,experience has taught me that!

I sound like I'm harping on about IMDb but you could tell if a post had been edited.

I pretty much do what you do.
Yes, I remember Arvin changing things he'd said. He wouldn't just elaborate or correct some spelling. He really would change the whole complexion and meaning of what he had said in order to make a person look ridiculous.