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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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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I do it fairly often. Usually when:

  • It's pointless to submit the content, for the others and for myself.
  • There's a high chance that someone will misread it and whine.
  • It would help someone whom I don't want to.

In Lemmy it's usually the first thing.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
  • It would help someone whom I don’t want to.

....explain? We're...silently and maliciously watching people eat shit when they don't have to? And this happens often?

Y tho

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Dunno about "we", but "I" do. I got plenty malice to watch them suffer! MWAHAHAHA [/evil villain laughter]

Serious now: if the person can't be arsed to help themself, or if their request for help sounds like a demand/whining/passive aggressiveness. A noob saying "pls help how do i shoot web tnx" is 100% fine in my book, a "waah, why isn't this community helping me? [insert easy-to-websearch question]" is not.

And this happens often?

Can't recall doing it in Lemmy. But I did all the time in a certain other platform.