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26 January 2007

Why I gotta hit Preview first? I'm a headstrong, headlong, don't-look-twicer. Can we have a no-preview Post button?

post by: cortex at: 19:59 | 22 comments

No. Yu suc?

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 26 January | 20:05

danmit

posted by cortex 26 January | 20:06

No. This was hashed out a long time ago. The preview and the 30 second delay between posts cuts back on people saying things they regret later and flooding a thread.

posted by arse_hat 26 January | 20:06

Bad buny.

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by mudpuppie 26 January | 20:07

Oh well. Thanks for the background, arse_hat; I figured there must be some history behind it. And for the record, I have no problem with the 30 second delay—I've just gotten rather used to self-editing before I post the regrettable thing, rather than while checking the regrettable thing's spelling, so the extra song and dance annoys me.

posted by cortex 26 January | 20:10

I knew I wasn't the only one who thought that bunny was getting scolded.

posted by youngergirl44 26 January | 20:39

EuphemismWatch 2007:

"scolding the bunny"

posted by cortex 26 January | 20:46

I knew I wasn't the only one who thought that bunny was getting scolded.

There's another interpretation?

posted by mudpuppie 26 January | 20:48

"Bunny, pull my finger!"

posted by qvantamon 26 January | 20:52

It's one of the things that reminds me this is different from MetaFilter. On the other hand, over there I sometimes cringe about something I've written after posting -- 'cause I forgot I wasn't going to get a second chance.

posted by Miko 26 January | 21:07

And yet i've left things in preview and thought i've hit post.
That possibly sucks more; it's a toss up.

posted by ethylene 26 January | 21:27

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that, eth.

posted by BoringPostcards 26 January | 22:17

There's another interpretation?

It's odd, on the front page I don't really see the scolding at all. It's more (look *pointing here*). But in this thread, yeah, the scolding is pretty much the only interpretation. How much of that is the "bad buny" text and how much is the context?

posted by danostuporstar 26 January | 22:24

Me too, eth, BP.

posted by Miko 26 January | 22:29

WE CAN'T HANDLE NO-PREVIEW.

;-)

*hits Preview, hits Post*

posted by shane 26 January | 23:46

I'd feel inclined to suggest an mod-overridable opt-in no-preview user option, but that's just making work for seanyboy who has good reason to be annoyed at me as it is.

So I'll just go back to increasingly drunken karaoke revolution with my brother and his lady.

posted by cortex 27 January | 00:00

I probably never actually post about 30% of the stuff I write here when I'm at work. I'l hit preview, get distracted and then close the browser window. To combat that, I'll hit preview then immediately hit post without actually reading the preview.

posted by birdherder 27 January | 00:00

Does anyone get that extra line added to the top of your post after you've hit preview??

That can be quite irksome sometimes.

posted by hadjiboy 27 January | 00:10

I want to do some kind of rich editing thing or a live preview or something javascripty but that's a long way away, it needs discussing and preview/post is really not such a problem. But it is something that I've thought about.

posted by seanyboy 27 January | 07:08

I don't mind the preview of course, now that I have gotten used to it.

I really like flickr's willingness to let you edit a comment AFTER you post it, but that'd be no fun here...people could say ANYTHING, then edit the comment and later deny saying the thing they said.

Seanyboy sux!

posted by richat 27 January | 10:12

Dammit! I forgot I CAN'T EDIT HERE!

you know I love you seanyboy, right?

posted by richat 27 January | 10:14

and seanyboy loves bernadette

posted by cortex 27 January | 10:58

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