Was about to answer the billionaires one, realized there are better ways to spend this limited beautiful moment of life than being virtually shouted at.
How about you?
It happens all the time, but it’s usually because I realize that either:
- I’m not as invested or informed on the topic as I thought I was and just don’t have anything meaningful to contribute
- whatever joke I was writing up didn’t sound as funny to me after I actually wrote it out
- it took too long to write, did some basic research and realized I didn’t know what I was talking about
- it took too long to write, I got distracted by something, and by the time I got back to it I had stopped caring
- something happens to the post I was responding to or my connection, page resets/refreshes and I’ve lost whatever the thing was midway through, I’m not typing all that again
- realize I’m going to say something not very PC and I know the exact responses I’ll get, “Nah, I don’t care enough about this.”
That last one I like to call “spotting the hill I don’t wanna die on”
Really well put.
I responded to a “why do Conservatives feel x” sort of of post as I have a few conservative friends and we’d talked about it.
Ended up in a multi day back and forth where I was accused of being everything from Hitler to sociopathic and had one person follow my comments around for a while afterwards.
And in the end? I feel no one was informed and none of it had any reward.
…are you me?
No, you’re me.
I didn’t know people were allowed to research before commenting! /s
Yeah, I try to limit it, but occasionally there will be some half-ass historical event or fact that I remember as part of my argument and I’ll go to look it up and realize the actual facts of the matter contradict whatever point I was trying to make. So then I just delete the comment and move on, “Well… I guess I didn’t have anything to say about that after all.”
This one
Me too!!
Hey wait a sec…!
Replying to a meme criticizing Biden’s pardon of his son that was being commented on by several liberals-are-funding-genocide types.
I would have pointed out trump’s basically saying he was going to take whatever leash remained on Israel off, and trumps pardon of family and criminals, but that never goes well. I get exhausted by the refusal to acknowledge the reality of the situation. So I deleted it.
Ridiculously often. Most of the time, I’ll type out most of a comment before realizing I just…don’t care to engage and don’t want to see replies.
If I’m low on spoons (which is most of the time), that’s what’ll happen unless I —
Okay, just for the sake of giving as authentic an answer to your question as possible, I got bored of trying to organize my thoughts into coherent words at the "—“ and intended to delete. Didn’t solely because of the question.
Also goddamn I’m wordy.
I thought you were starting a YAML file.
Also, your post is relatable. I wanted to make a (edit: obviously uncreative) post about how the OP would never know because I’d deleted my post, but couldn’t figure out a good way to make it funny.
I look at usernames. If it’s one I recognize, I generally don’t engage.
Ha, I have a similar process. I use Connect as my app which has a feature for user notes, so if I’ve tagged someone with a good note, I try to respond and vice versa.
Hey, that’s a cool feature!
I love it! Really made browsing more enjoyable and I feel like it sort of rewards others for being interesting (in as much as a comment or reply from me could be considered a positive.)
I’m an AnCap everyone hates me at least 50% of the time (except on Lemmy where it’s closer to 90/10).
It’s often not worth the grief.
Anything related to the Gaza war.
Some posts are just rage baits, the vast majority of people who click on them don’t look to hear different opinions. No point in engaging really.
Like the last 9 out of 10, honestly. Way too many comment snipers. It’s exhausting. You’re wise to not bother with it.
Never heard the term comment sniper but damn, I like it!
Something to do with Android/Apple
Funny that, I did exactly that with that post… I probably run about 50% overall on these.
Sometimes I look at what I’m about to post and decide that nobody really needs to see that.
Sometimes I look at the other comments and decide I don’t want to interact with the whole thing.
None because I don’t give a shit about what people online say or think
