How often do you use the "Preview Post" button ?

[groar]

I remarked the longer is a post I'm writing, the more I hit the "Preview Post".

At some stage, I hit it so often that I spend more time to re-read the Preview than to write the Post itself

Some people would say "slowly but surely"

Denis.

PS I have to confess that I dislike when it's blatant that someone sent a message without having read it at least once.
No attack against anybody here.
I was thinking about that because how my nephews are writing on Internet...

[metroschultz]

You didn't give me the option of;
"at least once per, but on the long ones several"
sometimes I get windy,
other times I just make a short comment.
so in conclusion,
On a long post ... maybe 2 or 3 times,
On a short one ... Once,
Schultz

[cfg83]

groar -

Over and over again. Sometimes a 1 or 2 paragraph post may be the sum of an hour of distillation of URL searches and/or carefully composed words.

If I am worried about losing the post to Internet wonkiness, I copy/paste it into Notepad and work on it there.

(only one preview this time!)

CarloSW2

[Daox]

I use it quite a bit if I'm writing a longer message. Short ones I don't generally use it on.

[SVOboy]

I honestly never post outside of the quick reply box because I am a very very very lazy person.

[wagonman76]

I honestly never post outside of the quick reply box because I am a very very very lazy person.

I do the same but only because it saves me bandwidth. I am still on dialup and can only get 28.8 with my 56k modem on these crappy old lines.

Often I will end up editing my post afterwards though.

[i_am_socket]

Depending on the post, maybe none, maybe once, maybe a whole lot more. 95% of the time I just do the quick reply and move on. 4% will get a "once" if there's a picture or something I want to make sure is correct. 1% are long winded and probably more confusing than is necessary or I'm doing something funky like adding a table.

And then I go back and edit again anyway because I messed up something that spell check doesn't pick up on. Every post is re-read at least twice, though, and I still mess things up