It’s not a matter of polished prose. I’m not paranoid because I think I might make a grammatical error or abuse semicolons. It’s a matter of what ideas I commit to words and send out to the community. My thought process when I was debating whether to scrap my original comment was anxious and convoluted: “There aren’t any other comments yet, do I really want this to set the tone for the entire discussion? This idea relies on the kind of personal anecdote that’s gotten me poor results before. But it’s still relevant, and I’ve been mistaken in the past about whether a comment would be well received...” At which point I decided that even if the original comment wasn’t good enough, my internal agonizing probably was.
It’s not a matter of polished prose. I’m not paranoid because I think I might make a grammatical error or abuse semicolons. It’s a matter of what ideas I commit to words and send out to the community. My thought process when I was debating whether to scrap my original comment was anxious and convoluted: “There aren’t any other comments yet, do I really want this to set the tone for the entire discussion? This idea relies on the kind of personal anecdote that’s gotten me poor results before. But it’s still relevant, and I’ve been mistaken in the past about whether a comment would be well received...” At which point I decided that even if the original comment wasn’t good enough, my internal agonizing probably was.