How often do you abort your threads/posts on forums like these?

[Ken Cheng]

How often do you begin to respond to a topic or start a new one on a message forum such as this, only to change your mind and never finish/post it?

For me, it's extremely rare. If I bother starting it, then I almost always post it.

I...know, however, that many people start topics/responses, but for one reason or another, abandon them before finishing.

I'd like to know how often it happens to you and the reasons it does.

[PJ]

I sometimes start writing an angry reply, but calm down before hitting "submit". Thus the war doesn't take place.

[Guo Xiang]

I sometimes start writing an angry reply, but calm down before hitting "submit". Thus the war doesn't take place.

Same here.

[Vic85]

happen to me alot. couldn't submit the posts because they made me seem too obsess with the "couple"

[dictionary]

Often.
Reasons:
Writer's block, "What was I gonna say?"
Sometimes my reply is full of gibberish/rambling/too much storytelling so I just "never mind" and delete it.

[odbayarb2000]

All the times

Often I couldn't express my ideas fully because of language proficiency.

[jadebunny9]

Very often. I'm usually distracted by something else and forget what I wanted to say.