Icxypion wrote:My apologies for belaboring the issue about editing privileges.
I think it is a hard thing for me to see the positions of other people and to cut off my own will. So, I recognize that this forum experience is good for me to learn a little humility and to correct myself by accepting things as they are. I hope you will forgive me my shortcomings of the past couple of weeks. I have not frequented any forums for more than 5 years and before that my experience in using this kind of medium was limited. So I need to make adjustments to myself in order to fit in well with others. God bless and assist the moderators in their labors on a site like this, which I can see must be difficult. I didn't realize I was being vexatious, but now I see that I was, and I am sorry about that and will try to be more considerate and understanding from the point of view of others.
unworthy Symeon
PS. Yes Maria, you are right. That is more than sufficient. I will remember your advice. Thank you.
I am glad you are here.
At forums which allow unlimited editing, there is always the risk that someone will be upset and then will selfishly delete all his/her posts.
As you are aware, with massive edits and deletions, the result is devastating.
Thus, I try to click PREVIEW below and continue to edit my posts before clicking SUBMIT.
If I accidentally hit SUBMIT before hitting PREVIEW, then I click EDIT above, and make sure that there are no typos or ambiguous sentences, clicking PREVIEW and then SUBMIT when I think it is reasonable and hopefully free from error.
Blackouts or system failures can be be just as devastating.
Sometimes, after spending 20 minutes or more composing my thoughts and making sure that my post is coherent and grammatically correct, I lose it all due to a power bump or system lockup. If I realize that I have already spent more than five minutes typing a response, then I will often go to my word processor, copy it over to my system, and finish typing it to its completion while saving it continuously. Finally, I copy and paste it here. If I have typed it on my word processor, then I must include the correct symbols , ,
, but sometimes my keystrokes may miss the back slash [/x], that is why it is crucial to use PREVIEW where formatting errors or misspelling can be immediately seen and corrected.