People who don't post

[Empty_of_Clouds]

I don't post my Pilot Decimo, does that count?

But seriously folks... I post the cap when I feel it is required for comfortable use. So any Sheaffer pens for example that I own have to be posted (because they're made for little people), whereas my custom made pens don't because they are made for my hands.

[Kaputnik]

I don't post my Pilot Decimo, does that count?

But seriously folks... I post the cap when I feel it is required for comfortable use. So any Sheaffer pens for example that I own have to be posted (because they're made for little people), whereas my custom made pens don't because they are made for my hands.

The Decimo was one of my first thoughts too.

But for "regular" pens, I suppose I could say "depends on the pen", but that's not the whole story. To me, posting the cap on a pen just seems the natural thing to do. Putting it down on the table, getting absorbed in what I'm writing, and then hunting around for it because I've absent mindedly shoved it to the side or put something on top of it? Nope. Holding it in my other hand? Awkward and unnatural for me. Expensive pen where there's a worry about scratching the beautiful finish? Wouldn't buy it, if it's going to be that much of a problem. Delicate vintage pen where again there's a worry about damaging it? Okay, if it's interesting enough otherwise I might not post, but I won't use it that much, either.

If I have a pen where the cap will not stay firmly posted, or where posting throws off the balance, that pen will get used seldom or never after I realize the problem. Case in point, I just took out my Eversharp Symphony after a bit of a hiatus. It has a nice nib, but I'd forgotten that the cap will not stay firmly posted. You can post it, but the cap has a tendency to work itself off during use. Obviously I'm not going to jam it on there so hard that I damage the pen. My solution? I'm just using this at home to write in my journal. When it's empty, I'll clean it out and ink something else. For Eversharps, my two Skylines also have nice nibs, and the caps will stay posted.

Of course, what seems natural and right to me may not seem that way to someone else. Your pens, your rules. But I'll continue to post.

Except for my Decimo.