And some of us are very grateful that you do.
Teremia wrote:Thank you, everybody, for this thread! It is helping me understand my cyberbrothers and cybersisters who are Post Deleters a little better.
I am a historian by nature, so deleted posts make me unhappy and uncomfortable, NOT because of anything interpersonal or emotional, but just because I don't like the historical record being erased. I prefer amendments and footnotes to deletions! Deleted posts remind me of the old maps of Berlin we used in East Germany back when East Germany existed: big old BLANK SPOT in the middle to represent the unmentionable West Berlin. What kind of map is that?
Anyway, I see how many different attitudes there are among us to this issue, and it is enlightening!
It
has been an enlightening, although admittedly for me a slightly painful, thread. I really did have no idea that my (past! it's in the past!) habit was making (some) people so
unhappy... jeez, that is sort of the opposite of my actual desire, when I post. I have learned something very important from the input of people I admire and respect.
I'm going to roll the words "dishonest" and "passive-aggressive" around in my head for a while (yes, I know those words weren't lobbed
directly at me, but certainly at a group I
used to! belong to), but I will accept that that is the way some of my online buddies thought of my
previous! habits. It is amazing how many ways something as simple as posting-- or editing or unposting-- on a messageboard can affect people.
Frelga, no need to respond back to me... I'm good. I think I am pickin' up what you were puttin' down.
"What do you fear, lady?" Aragorn asked.
"A cage," Éowyn said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Nope! But that was funny too!
Please don't tell Mrs. Alatar, but Itotallyloveyou. 
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