Composing this new posting I have two options: <preview> or <new>

Earlier today while composing a reply to an existing post I had only one option: <Submit>. At that time I was operating on a record small amount of sleep, and I hit submit - and was presented with a page of my post at top and an edit field below (prefilled with the source of my post).

Being a sleep-deprived fool I thought that I was looking a preview of the post, with the source below for editing
- so I hit submit (again).
(Yes I *did* miss the small change that the title now started with "RE:")

I realized what I had done at the same time that I started seeing /msg from monks in the Chatterbox :-(

My point(s) &/or opinion(s) related to this are:

• Preview is a good idea.
  It should be available both when posting new nodes, and when replying to existing nodes.
• From a HCI point of view I think that the buttons should be named the same everywhere: 'Preview' and 'Submit' (not 'new')
• After processing 'Submit' for a reply, a more logical result / destination page would be either:
  • back where you were when you clicked 'Offer your reply'
  • At the 'replied to' article with all replies threaded below (including yours)

It may have been a side effect of the lack of sleep (or just depending too much on the content of the 'Site How To' node), but it took a /msg from a another monk (thanks kudra) before I figured out:

• that I could & how-to edit my accidental posts
• to request the duplicates be deleted at Editor Requests

Perlmonks is a great site, keep up the good work!

Thanks for listening to my $0.02,
Think I'll go to bed now,
DouglasDD

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