>(it took me a couple of months of peeking in before I summoned the courage to post a question to start a thread, and I'll never forget the run that my first thread, "Neanderthal," gave me!...phewwww!!).

You are so right about that. I too went through total hell with my first post and with every post I suffer minor agonies. If the unseen audience is terrifying for those familiar with English for others it might be easier to stay away. For me the most used button is Edit post. I write fast but after submitting it I see the post as others will and find a whole lot wrong. (For the post that started this thread I had written "self introspection" then I checked and found that introspection has a "self" aspect to it.)
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P.S I edited this post to write I did not edit it even once.
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P.P.S But then I edited the edition...