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?

ohlaph,

Dail

idunnololz,
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My Lemmy app keeps a receipt every time I bail. So far it says I’ve bailed 56 times. Lmao.

b3an,
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Sometimes I react emotionally. Resting a reply is the catharsis to release, and usually by the end I’ve lost my steam by letting it out. 🍵🫖

nl4real,

A great deal. I also don’t like to get in internet arguments a lot for the same a reasons.

Tolstoy,
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Aborting short ones like this, maybe every third. Longer ones 9/10

DarienGS,

I do this all the time. I see so many brainless, low-effort posts all over the internet that I don’t want to add to the pollution with anything I’m not confident is either informative or funny.

But I also want Lemmy to grow and thrive, so here I’ve been making more of an effort to try to finish and post even comments I’m not so certain about. I figure that has to be better for the site than contributing nothing at all.

FoundTheVegan,
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About 20% I'd say. It used to be much higher, arounx80%, but pushing through the anexity of feeling like have nothing to contribute has helped improved my writing. Perhaps it's come with age, but I feel like it's much easier to make myself and my thought process understood by others. A younger me thought that logic and just "being correct" was enough to be persuasive, but that's just not how people work.

TheInsane42,
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When I start on a responce, which is rare, I finish it. I’m more a reader then writer.

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

AgentGrimstone,

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

MargotRobbie,
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Rarely. I made it a point to finish my thoughts here, since I have a tendency to abandon what I write halfway, and I’m going to stop making excuses for myself.

I have had some misses, but people seems to like to read my random thoughts and corny jokes here. Mostly.

neuroneiro,

I… nevermind…

Harvey656,

9 times out of 10 I realize I’m dumb and in the wrong and stop the post.

Pratai,

For me, almost….

intensely_human,

I cancel maybe 10% of the time

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