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?
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
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
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”