META: The 'Back to Thread' Option.

I don't use it much, but that's not because I don't like looking at how it looks on the page (and doing the check of it that I should have done before I hit submit). It's just that I like to see what's in New Answers first and then if there's nothing new I'll go back to the thread I've just posted to.

The only times I use it are when I want to post a second message, either because I've just thought of something else, or because I originally thought that what I wanted to say worked better split into two messages. Usually for a joke, because it's all in the

timing!

Apart from html-checking, I mainly use it to go back and see if my post was really ridiculously screen-fillingly overlong or if nobody will notice that it's a lot longer than it needed to be considering how little I have to say about anything. I then stare down at my curling toes, mutter "fuck fuck FUCK too long again argh", and return to the new answers page filled with extra self-loathing which will make the next answer twenty times longer and infinitely more embarrassing and dull than it should be as well. This = case in point. Oops.

Or with the html checking I arrive back at the new answers page thinking, "I had no idea how big and self-important that tag would make the text look, duh," and will then do it again and think the same thing mere days later.

Brrr.