I do the same, except mostly I delete the responses. The writing was important to me, but the reading is rarely important to someone else. It would be wasting their time.

I would guess I post about 40% of the comments I write.

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lelandfe 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Lincoln famously wrote and never mailed letters as a way to vent emotions.

	▲	EvanAnderson 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's so bizarre to me that this works and I can't say I believed it until I tried. I shouldn't be surprised that it's so easy to trick our brains. I assume the phenomenon where I write 90% of an email, save it as a draft to finish later, never remember to finish it, get asked about it and have irrefutable certainty I sent it, then finally discover it as an unfinished draft is a facet of the same trickery. Stupid brain... Grrr.