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How often to you bail on a half-written post or response? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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?

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[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Eonandahalf@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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 🙃.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago

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