mavsgirl, you have done nothing wrong. If the previously opened wordassociation exists , you would see almost 95% of the members of this forum have post padded in that thread. You can also see the counting thread
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and you will see that post padding was done by some people actively speaking against post padding. But I feel it is okay to keep the post padding limited to these couple of threads. This way people not interested can ignore those two or three threads.