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Every once in a while it happens…I hit the wrong button when doing comment moderation. Basically all I’m looking for is that the post isn’t spam…so I don’t look at the name, just the content, very briefly. And then I hit “approve”….or…in some cases…I don’t. After midnight, like now, I’m tired and not as accurate as I should be.
So I *think* I deleted a post I shouldn’t have, but since the deleted ones are completely gone…I can’t check. Just in case, though…apologies now and in future to anyone whose post disappears entirely when they knew it was appropriate. It was an accident.
Comment by Moira — April 17, 2012 @ 2:47 am
LOL, it’s nice to know I’m not the only one who Has those “Oh, sh!t” moments. I like to think of it as proving that I’m a card-carrying member of the human race (human = imperfect = screw-ups…)
I think Homer summed it up best: “Doh!”
(What, y’all thought I was going to come up with some profound quote from the Iliad, or something? It is, after all, past midnight! :))
Comment by Iphinome — April 17, 2012 @ 5:30 am
@Moira
From the Iliad.
Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind,
Unnerves the limbs, and dulls the noble mind
If wine counts, why not being up past bedtime?
Comment by Elizabeth D. — April 17, 2012 @ 3:02 pm
That’s nothing; sometimes my computer keeps a back copy of a file, and I find mistakes that I know I corrected because I did a global search. It isn’t the operating system either, because it has happened in both Windows Word and Linux Office Writer. The context is funny too: using the book and coming across a huge typo (da*#it).
But when it is something I write, I don’t mind as much, because then I have an opportunity to write it better 🙂
Comment by Moira — April 17, 2012 @ 3:45 pm
“This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.”
Plautus
Wine certainly counts! But it’s not all bad, no matter what Homer and Willy Wagglestick say:
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.”
William Shakespeare
Pshaw, I say!
“Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
See what happens when it’s not after midnight and I’ve actually had some sleep? Heh. 😉
“Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.”
Horace
I should probably add something about moderation in all things – at least most of the time!