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?

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.

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.

hamsammy,

I’d say I post about 1/30 responses I make.

Kiwi_Girl,
@Kiwi_Girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Do you write a lot of responses, or just do a low amount of bailing?

Jaeger,

I find people online tend to have a lot more passion for arguing than I do so I often rethink posting any responses I come up with.

chicken,

This is what I hate the most about the practice of using a very “scorched earth” style of rhetoric focused on shaming and berating and making things uncomfortable for opponents. There’s probably a lot of people with objections but they just don’t feel like dealing with that stuff so they don’t say anything.

spittingimage,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

I still catch myself in the process of replying to someone who is Wrong On The Internet, but for the most part I just let it go. It still bothers me, but I’ve accepted that nothing I say on a webforum is going to change any hearts or minds. Nowadays I mostly post to try and give people a cheap laugh.

MigratingtoLemmy,

I do it sometimes, when I realise midway that I was wrong/don’t care enough (usually when I feel that someone hasn’t done enough research, but I should likely tell them that instead of just stopping my reply).

andrew_bidlaw,

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.

JohnDClay,

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.

indepndnt,

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

MajorHavoc,

I can’t think of a single time I’ve-

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

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