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?

ChefTyler1980,

Constantly.

olafurp,

Every now and then I write a well thought out post, make sure my grammar is good and that my point is clear and that there is no context missing. Then I sometimes rewrite a 100 word section because I thought my thoughts were too jumbled up in hindsight.

Then I realise I don’t care enough to finish it.

To answer your question, my ratio is around 80% send 20% delete.

_haha_oh_wow_,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

More often than not, I hit publish, but I definitely hit cancel sometimes. Sometimes it’s because it’s not worth arguing, but sometimes, I realize I don’t really have anything worthwhile to contribute and should probably just stfu

Bakkoda,

I write a response. Reread to make sure it’s exactly what i usually write, first 25% on topic, rest completely off. Then i delete 75% and hit post lol

_haha_oh_wow_,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

liztliss,

I cancel a lot more lately. As I’m writing my response I’m also thinking about what they might respond with to my response and as I’m doing this I realize this discussion is going to take more energy and engagement than I really initially cared for or than it’s worth and at that point I’m like… why even bother, nevermind

ViscloReader,

I even do this in real life. I do this thing where I say my whole next phrase between my teeth and only then I say it out loud and almost 50% of the time I don’t repeat it out loud.

SomeoneElse,

This is something I started doing fairly recently and it’s really cathartic! I’d say 90% of the replies I write to people who are rude or looking for an argument, get deleted without sending.

papabobolious,

I wanna say half the time. Lot of times I catch myself posting about something not worth my time and energy.

xc2215x,

Rarely I will do it.

Rentlar,

Yeah, I’d say it happens fairly often (~15% of the time). I try to stop myself from being too snarky at people when it’s not warranted. I try to save that for internet assholes, not confused people or people making a small mistake.

Another instance is if I’m 2 replies into a back and forth convo with an individual, I might write a 3rd reply but often just cancel it, because most times by that point the discussion isn’t worth me continuing.

PS you will find I often edit replies right after publishing to fix stuff, add stuff to fully answer the question, or change my tone if it sounds too aggressive. Sorry about that.

reisono_,

I delete probably half of all posts/responses I start (across many accounts). Sometimes it’s because I realise the answer to my question while typing it but more often than not it’s because I realise what I’m saying is ambiguous/opinionated and I get too anxious about someone taking it the totally wrong way and getting offended or annoyed.

Annoyingly this gets in the way of a lot of my online communication. Either that or I realise no one cares what my opinion is… Unless they directly ask- thanks OP!

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

I do that often. Sometimes I stop and touch grass and realize I’m being stupid. Other times I realize I’m just wasting time, or just repeating what someone else said. Like yeah, my opinion matches up with someone else’s, but it isn’t helping the discussion any. Or other times I just need to chill from a heated discussion.

But usually the biggest one is when autocorrect is fucking with me and I just don’t have the patience to go back and fix just about every word I just swiped. I figure, if it’s that bad, then it just wasn’t worth posting.

Mr_Dr_Oink,

It depends how long the comment is. Short comments get past the “dont post it” filter 99% of the time. But long posts give me time to realise i dont care enough to carry on.

TimewornTraveler,

Rarely ever

Cyv_,
@Cyv_@kbin.social avatar

I'd say over half. Maybe 60% ?

JoBo,

All the time but not as often as I should.

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