I have had a tendency since my earliest days on social media where I will get halfway or more through a response, and end up just cancelling it. Sometimes I feel like I’m just being to over the top with snark or otherwise don’t want to be that kind of person, but a lot of the time I’ll decide I just really don’t care enough to finish it. Sometimes I just know it’ll be an argument and I know what the person is going to say, and just have no interest in continuing the discussion. I did it on Reddit, I did it on bulletin boards, I even did it in my teens and twenties on Usenet - and I’ll probably go on doing it for as long as I continue using this medium. I probably do it a bit more than half the time. I know that lemmy benefits from more content and I have had some great discussions, but sometimes it’s just not worth it for me.
How about you? Do you hit publish or cancel more often?
Sometimes I realize I’m not contributing anything new to the conversation. I just upvote the post that said what I wanted to say and be done with it. Yeah, I could get some upvotes, but what’s the point? It’s not like I can buy things with imaginary points.
Can’t put a number on it, but I’d wager it happens the majority of the time
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It’s a good 70% of the time that I’ll cancel instead of post. As I’ve gotten older my desire to be right has greatly diminished when it comes to random people on the internet.
This is how I feel, but it’s closer to 95% of the time for me. I’ve been on the Internet since its inception and I don’t have it in me to deal with people’s bullshit anymore.
I don’t need to be heard. I don’t need to be right. I only post for help I can’t get elsewhere or to help others. On the rare occasion I deviate from that rule, I usually get a reply that makes me regret engaging.
Agreed. Plus, these days, most people just want to rile you into wasting your time compiling an argument and sources to back it up so they can go “fake lul!”
I… nevermind…
Here I am writing my opinion, only to realise that many of you have already posted most of the valid points I was going to make. So now my comment is pretty much worthless and adds nothing to the discussion.
I cancel most of the time, but today I’ll open an exception to prove my point.
Have you somehow become more enlightened by my post? Yeah, should have cancelled it.
I think that this answer really is great. It’s truly provided me with…
When you think about it, you sort of proving the point that…
This took to long to formulate, so I gave up. But at least I posted it 🙃.
One in five, I’ll guess. I am prone to TMI, not as much intimate sharing as wanting to write about things that are too far remotely related.
I’m also prone to seguing into a rant as I have much to say I wish were said more often. Sometimes I edit those out. Sometimes I mark them as rants.
And then I am prone to mobile keyboard fatigue, and will wear out if a short explanation won’t do. I get back to it at a proper keyboard less often than I don’t.
40% I’d estimate, I tend to write very long and in depth comments and will realize either I dont care enough about the subject to finish my statement or argument point, or I’m likely being baited by someone who doesnt care about having a genuine exchange of ideas and just wants to be “right”.
Something akin to 10% of unwritten comments here. 5% are shared between cases when I write it for too long and still can’t see it as a complete thought, or when I get distracted half-way through and can’t care to continue. Other 5% is my stupid phone optimi… pushing apps from memory when I switch to something else (even if it’s for fact-checking this exact comment), so I lose whatever I wrote and the thread itself.
I’d say I post about 1/30 responses I make.
Do you write a lot of responses, or just do a low amount of bailing?
I’m bad at wording things so sometimes it comes out way worse than I intended and other people can’t read my mind and know what I meant so I tend to delete most
Ok, so well I made this several weeks ago and well, you know…
This, definitely.
Whenever I have a train of thought that suddenly stops and I don’t want to spend time thinking how to finish the message
Maybe one in 20 or so, mostly I’ve realized I misread the comment, or I just don’t really feel like arguing any more.
