When you see someone "crafting a response" for a long period and then post nothing, are you curious about what they were going to post, but didn't?

No.

Sometimes. Eventually, I figure they walked away from their computer and when they came back, it wasn’t relevant.

I figured something went screwy with their browsers. Maybe they just typed 3 words, erased, and then moved on but it still shows as “Crafting”.

Only when it’s petethepothead, who has been known to take several days.

Of course.

Yes! I do it too, but it’s usually because the answer just didn’t sound right! Or I couldn’t get the wording right!

Whenever I do this it is because I’m at home, I get distracted on wikipedia, or getting food, or getting high, or walking the dog, etc. When I come back to the computer it is to do something else, I close fluther or whatever else I was doing ( I get distracted a lot). This actually makes me more of an observer on fluther

I wish it were possible to give lurve for the prolonged non-responses.

Yes. I was also tempted to sit here typing idly for the next 20 minutes to piss people off, but I decided not to. I’m too rational. D:

Yes! I’m generally really curious as to what they had to say, especially on philosophical questions and questions that prompt hilarious and/or…interesting… responses.

Yes, I’m always curious, and then wonder for the next day why they never answered.

Unless it’s johnpowell, who is more than likely just passed out on his keyboard from one too many PBR’s

I would if it was on an Instant Messenger chat.
Bearing the curiosity and anxiety all for a fluther response that may and may not be a good relevant answer to the question would probably drive me crazy (or crazier.) People already tell me I think too much sometimes.
They probably just hesitated about sharing something, for whatever reasons we hold back our answers.

..Well, that’s about enough of that.

Nah, I don’t really wait around to see what they post. If it’s a question I’m interested in, I just wait for my Activity For You thingy

yeah, it intrigues me to know what they wrote and then decided it wasn’t good enough.

I am guilty of this, when I think my answers are stupid or not relevant – those kinds of answers are often the most interesting, probably.

I have done this, just could not express it in the way I felt was effective. I am a perfectionist. Such is my burden.

Very much so… i wonder if they think their answer will be too controversial.. of if they are over thinking it. Sometimes tho i’m sure more than one person has re-written their answer and panders to the majority opinion. That kinda annoys me.

I do that when no matter how many times I re-phrase it, I cannot clean-up the profanity. :)

Yes very

I’m naturally inquisitive so I’ve wondered about those long composing sessions too. I’m also guilty, sometimes, of taking a long time to formulate my answers. In fact, I timed myself while writing, re-writing, and editing this very answer and it took me about 9 minutes to write 3 sentences and then submit them. Ouch.

No. I’m one of those people who types forever and then ends up deciding not to press “Answer!”.

I have a tendency to rewrite even simple IMs multiple times before sending. Every once in a while, I end up deciding after 3 revisions, that it wasn’t a worthy message anyway.

I wonder if someone beat him/her to the response they were going to give.

I got confused once when someone called it “pulling a Judi.” They had to re direct me to a question I had left open for over a day. They had a conversation on the thread about it. Oops! Sorry.

I’m guilty of having fluther open on several windows and being easily distracted and getting completely sidetracked at YouTube, Wikipedia and Amazon, and receiving and responding to quite a few PMs, and, my typing is very slow and the one and a half fingers that can still type cramp up and fatigue quickly, and….....hey @The_Compassionate_Heretic, hope you were not thinking about me on this question, but I am frequently guilty of abandoning incomplete responses or posting ones that may have appeared to be in preparation for ages. I will be surrendering to a voice recognition system before long and pray to Milo it will be spelling friendly.

I have done this many times before. I have a 5 year old daughter at home so I can’t always sit as long as I’d like at the computer. I’ll get halfway into a response then I will need to get up to help her with something. If I know that I’ll be away from the computer for a long time I’ll just not finish my response.

No. Long answers turn me off anyway. I won’t wade through a long drawn out post. Keep it within a few sentences & get to the point.

@Judi I remember that thread-it was so funny. Wish I could find it to link here.

Not really. I assume it’s someone like myself who started a response, got interrupted at work and then had to bail the site for awhile.

When I type things out I often get distracted by other tabs before I click “Answer!”

yes!
but i actually have done that about 3 times today. i think i’m losing my magic. i’d be half way through a long-winded response, and then all of a sudden i’d look at it and be like “wait what” and decide against it.

@tiffyandthewall: Try short-winded. It will be a miracle. Watch.