This hasn't caused a great deal of discussion on AN because we're used to it. Before the upgrade, it was impossible to post a comment or reply without clicking preview first. After the upgrade, it's still impossible to post a comment or reply without clicking preview first. Nothing has changed in that regard, so most of us haven't even thought about it.

Preview became mandatory with the Ajax upgrade, which was implemented at about this time last year. That's the same upgrade that gave us other features, like recommending diaries and adding tags. AN and a few others got Ajax, but many other SB Nation blogs did not. If you go to one of the latter, such as Lookout Landing, you'll notice that it lacks a lot of things you were used to from old AN (eg, recommended diaries). Folks on LL have always been able to post without previewing, so they think of that as normal.

Now, with the current upgrade, some readers from LL and other non-Ajax sites have come over here to check out the new system, and for them being required to preview is a new thing. It got mentioned in one of the threads here, and it's been discussed quite a bit at LL.

The main complaint seems to be that it slows down posting. That prompted the observation that it's really just one more click so it's not a big deal. That prompted the observation that for the exact same reason that it's no big deal, it doesn't accomplish much either: Anyone who doesn't want to preview his or her comment won't look at it anyway, and making them click a second time won't make them. By the same token, anyone who does want to preview still has that option if it's not mandatory. I pointed out that in case of an egregious error -- like if you accidentally bracketed a big chunk of text with "<" and ">" causing it to be swallowed by the software, or if a picture you inserted is much more ginormous than you realized -- mandatory preview can force you to notice even if you don't reread your words.

Opinion at LL is strongly against mandatory preview, but they're open-minded enough to realize that, unlike us, they aren't used to it. Someone there wants to hear objective opinion from those of us who are actually used to it. Does it bother us? Do we like it? Do we care at all? Hence this poll.

Important: Since the purpose of this poll is to gauge the experience of those of us who are used to mandatory preview, please don't choose any of the top five answers (the ones that say "I'm used to it") unless you're at least a semi-regular user of AN or another Ajax SB Nation blog. For the rest of you, so that you don't feel disenfranchised, there are three more choices at the bottom (the ones that say "I'm not used to it").