How often to you bail on a half-written post or response?

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?

indepndnt,

Less now that I’ve learned to give up before I start.

MajorHavoc,

I can’t think of a single time I’ve-

JoBo,

All the time but not as often as I should.

Redfox8,

Every once in a…

pathief,
@pathief@lemmy.world avatar

All the time. Sometimes I’ll write an entire wall of text, correct all the typos I could find and then delete it. “Why bother? This person is just not going to consider a different opinion, just save yourself the pointless discussion.”

hemko,

Whenever I have a train of thought that suddenly stops and I don’t want to spend time thinking how to finish the message

bandario,
@bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

All the time. I could have typed a multi-paragraph masterpiece but then I realise I can’t be bothered offering help in a world full of people that know everything about everything and are never wrong.

Trainguy,
@Trainguy@lemmy.world avatar

I get pretty terrified of people attacking me for saying something wrong, so I tend to delete something I was about to say. I don’t exactly have the greatest way with words, so an anonymous post where no one knows I’m not trying to be a jerk can be a bit difficult to handle.

AgentGrimstone,

I’d say a third of the time. I catch myself writing and revealing too much.

Syndic,

Increasingly more often in the last year or two. Makes social media use for me a lot more pleasant. But sometime I still can’t resist.

JPJones,

Yesn’t

lorez,

You gotta pick your battles.

carnimoss,
@carnimoss@lemmings.world avatar

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

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

A lot of the time.

I often don’t comment on things in the first place, because someone else already covered the points that I want to make. So I do an updoot and leave.

Then there are times I want to write something funny, realise it’s only funny in my head and doesn’t translate to text at all, then just leave it.

Then there are the many times I’m thinking of putting a lot of research and effort into a response to some really stupid take… But I realise it would just be a complete waste of time. Efforts wasted to try and educate someone on science when all they want to do is continue believing in whatever nonsense they believe in.

LemmyKnowsBest,

i do this increasingly often lately.

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