Do you ever look back at your old posts and cringe?

[cheisgreat]

...or is that just me? I was having a look at my past posts (since I've only posted 23 times)

I'll get started. I once asked, who was better: Che Guevara or Uncle Joe?

I may have been 16 or something at the time but jeez I can't believe I actually thought Stalin was brilliant besides you can't really compare them. I really didn't have a clue and still don't.

Anyone else? Or do you laugh at other people's posts?

[apathy maybe]

I have too many posts. I also try and edit old posts if they are particularly bad. Makes me wish I was a mod sometimes (you can't edit posts in closed threads).

[Holden Caulfield]

yes, all the time. I didnt even join up that long ago.

but then again Im not ashamed of not knowing much when i came here.

[LeninBalls]

I get insanely embarassed reading old posts of mine on any forum, even old convos on msn. I don't know why.

[Sean]

I have too many posts. I also try and edit old posts if they are particularly bad. Makes me wish I was a mod sometimes (you can't edit posts in closed threads).
If it isn't deliberately to disrupt the flow of a thread or make others look stupid, PM me a list and I'll do it for you. I've asked lots of other websites to delete some of my embarassing or information leaking posts in the past and they've never had a problem. Few people ever read the old posts but if you google someone they can crop up and crap you thought when you were in your teens might still be visible to someone out to get you.

[F9]

yes, all the time. I didnt even join up that long ago.

but then again Im not ashamed of not knowing much when i came here.

Yeah that.I remember i was posting in a forum about my team(which closed now :crying:) for years, and on the last days i run threw my posts and was seeing some and was asking my self who idiot posted those:lol:Especially my posts on some religious shit, as i was still a christian at that point:rolleyes: i was facing stupiditys im laughing at people now:lol:Yeah old posts do have this, but lots of those posts of mine were lost when that forum got down:crying:

[Pawn Power]

All my old posts that I read seem factually and analytically correct, albeit not worded as I might like... but that is true with most of my posts since this is a message board and not a publication, I don't thoroughly edit my posts before I submit them.

[bellyscratch]

I'm embarrassed of just about all my posts... I still struggle to express myself properly :D

[apathy maybe]

If it isn't deliberately to disrupt the flow of a thread or make others look stupid, PM me a list and I'll do it for you. I've asked lots of other websites to delete some of my embarassing or information leaking posts in the past and they've never had a problem. Few people ever read the old posts but if you google someone they can crop up and crap you thought when you were in your teens might still be visible to someone out to get you.

I think I've already asked Black Dagger to get rid of most of the personally identifiable stuff.

But I'll keep your offer in mind :).

[Sean]

I think I've already asked Black Dagger to get rid of most of the personally identifiable stuff.

But I'll keep your offer in mind :).
Glad to see another person that proudly wears a tinfoil hat. They seem to have gone out of fashion online with the advent of "web 2.0"

[S.O.I]

never!

i see it as a learning experience. a chance to better myself.

:bored:

[Raúl Duke]

I don't look back.

Although I may have done so before but I have little regrets to the stuff I posted here.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I've said some cringe-inducing things in the past, but the idea of going back and editing them strikes me as the actions of a two-faced, superficial twat who cares more about image and reputation than personal integrity, let alone anything else. Remember that you're a human fucking being, just like the rest of us. Why don't you have the stones to admit that you can fuck up along with everyone else?

[Sean]

I've said some cringe-inducing things in the past, but the idea of going back and editing them strikes me as the actions of a two-faced, superficial twat who cares more about image and reputation than personal integrity, let alone anything else. Remember that you're a human fucking being, just like the rest of us. Why don't you have the stones to admit that you can fuck up along with everyone else?

Well thats true Noxypoo, but lots of people don't like the progression of their political stances in full view of the entire world.

[Angry Young Man]

I'm shit scared that if I did, I'd be all 'Oh my fucking Darwin tell me I didn't say that!'

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Well thats true Noxypoo, but lots of people don't like the progression of their political stances in full view of the entire world.

Why not? People change as do their political stances, that's nothing to be ashamed of. If someone previously held a political stance that they now find embarassing, that's something to be proud of, since it shows they can be swayed by evidence and reasoned argument - after all, why would one be embarassed about a view that is not contradicted in such a manner?

[Plagueround]

Old posts here not so much. Old livejournals? Definitely. :lol:

[h0m0revolutionary]

I've not been on long at all, so I dont look back and recoil at soem fo my posts but..

I once stood at an LGBT conference and defended hizbollah's rescord on LGBT :blushing::blushing::blushing:

I have since left the SWP and gained sense :P

[Pawn Power]

Well thats true Noxypoo, but lots of people don't like the progression of their political stances in full view of the entire world.

In full view of the entire world? It's an anonymous message board.

[JimmyJazz]

yes, all the time. I didnt even join up that long ago.

but then again Im not ashamed of not knowing much when i came here.

this exactly

[bcbm]

I like logging on the morning after consuming lots of drugs to see if I made any posts. The results are usually pretty funny, or surprising... I'm oddly coherent when on stuff.

[Jazzratt]

I'm fairly sure that if there were a timemachine I could use to argue with the person who made some of my old posts I'd tell him to fuck off.

[Black Sheep]

...or is that just me? I was having a look at my past posts (since I've only posted 23 times)

I'll get started. I once asked, who was better: Che Guevara or Uncle Joe?

I may have been 16 or something at the time but jeez I can't believe I actually thought Stalin was brilliant besides you can't really compare them. I really didn't have a clue and still don't.

Anyone else? Or do you laugh at other people's posts?
You were 16 at the time? You're >16 now and you've posted 24 times?
wtf?

[F9]

You were 16 at the time? You're >16 now and you've posted 24 times?
wtf?

:confused::confused::confused:

[Black Sheep]

:confused::confused::confused:
what is your query, son?

[Pogue]

My first posts on here were massive chunks of police apologism so yes.

[frozencompass]

I think that every person (even the coolest people I know), on almost every subject, on every forum, would be kinda ashamed reading their past posts (the older the post, the bigger the shame).

It's not just you. :)

[Robespierre2.0]

Haha, I remember back when I joined, I was a libsoc. Man, that was embarassing.

[ls]

Haha, I remember back when I joined, I was a libsoc. Man, that was embarassing.

What in the world? :lol: There's nothing embarrassing about being that. ;)

Stalinism is way worse. :D

And yes although I joined not long ago, some posts do definitely make me cringe, some of the slightly acidic ones.

[Angry Young Man]

I'm gonna search out every hundredth post. And I spend way too long in the intros forum before I realised that you're only meant to put an introductory thread in.

[Black Sheep]

HLVS

My first posts on here were massive chunks of police apologism so yes.


Same here mate, same here..:bored:

[JimmyJazz]

I like logging on the morning after consuming lots of drugs to see if I made any posts.

It's not a common thing for me, but I did once find I had made a birthday thread for InsertNameHere that I have no memory of making.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I never go back and look at my old posts. That's probably a good thing, too.

I don't think I've ever drunk-posted on this board either, at least not that I can remember. I have posted high, though, and usually my thoughts are suprisingly lucid.

[Oktyabr]

I don't look back at my posts and cringe

I write my posts and cringe

Which I did right after I typed this :ohmy:

[#FF0000]

Old posts here not so much. Old livejournals? Definitely. :lol:

You know I'm pretty sure we are the same person.

Anyway, I'm not embarrassed at all by my old posts. I'm actually particularly happy with a lot of them. Particularly the one I made about Mao being the farthest thing from a revolutionary. The troll factor alone made it great but the fact that I was serious made it even better.

[Killfacer]

I definatly do. Some of this jizz i used to say is embarresing. Particuarly when i first joined.

[BIG BROTHER]

I remember that in one of my first posts i asked if china was still communist >_<

[GracchusBabeuf]

I laugh when I look back at my older posts/writings elsewhere/ etc

[cheisgreat]

You were 16 at the time? You're >16 now and you've posted 24 times?
wtf?

Yeah, what's wrong this? I'm not under a contractual obligation to post 100's of times, am I? I don't come on here everyday. I come on every so often and browse and sometimes make the odd post- no harm done.

I was actually 17 when I started posting here, not 16.

[LOLseph Stalin]

I cringe at my old posts, especially since I knew almost nothing about revolutionary politics when I first joined this site.