My problem is that people are still fucking wrong and don’t care
My thing is that during my 15-minutes of toilet time each morning, when my brain is coming to and my mind starts perking up, I either get deeply sentimental for some reason and start commenting some of the most heartfelt and poetic shit, or I think I’m a well-established comedian and start dropping some weird/gross jokes that strangers could easily wind up taking seriously and think I’m a fiend.
The sentimental stuff always goes over well, but the jokes are either overlooked entirely, or they hit and my ego thinks I just performed at Madison Square Garden.
My version involves not realizing I tried to click submit while I’m behind a VPN, because the app I’m using, Lemmy with VPN looks & feels like a shadowban.
The most powerful force in the world is the one that makes you delete a draft comment hours into writing it because you know with certainly your comment will contain at least one mistake and you’ll receive replies from the many people much smarter than you eagerly, dutifully correcting you and never recover from the embarrassment of your comment being revealed as an archetypal instance of the Dunning–Kruger effect and you an imposter.
my nightmare is somebody knowing all my unsent comments
Introducing Reddit’s latest AI feature! We take all the comments you didn’t post, jazz em up a little with our AI, and share them with the world!
You know that’s not bad. like an “intrusive thought” gimmick bot.
Wait you meant under someone else’s account name right?
Oh I would love to see all the scandalous unsent comments…
it’s not that entertaining. usually either straight up thirst or just annoying argumentative reddit shit that I’m trying not to be. Fediverse is a beautiful place when we’re using our better judgment. it’s full of people who I feel like disappeared from reddit right before the bad times started and I’m getting back in touch with the part of me that wanted to be like that too
O well. I thought we were bringing out the guillotines soon. That’s nice too I suppose.
oh well I do intend to duel you for your username so there will DEFINITELY BE BLOOD 😁 there can only be one!
Yea, IDK about OP, but the “well thought out” comments are not the ones I abandon.
I abandon ones I fear an emotional person will reply to, and usually I put more effort into thoroughly making such comments bulletproof to begin with, so I’m with OP.
I suppose that’s good. I just now that I personally will put too much thought into something I shouldn’t even be doing.
This infuriates me when I accidentally do it. I maintain a Lemmy client that will save your work as long as you don’t hit reload. I’m working on an update that will recover the comment if the network request to submit the comment fails. Sometimes I’m on the fence about posting a comment, but even if I hit cancel my work is still saved.
Gonna be serious here: 99% of the time If you try to debate me on anything I post: If I can’t make a joke out of it, I’m not gonna bother responding. Especially since you’re already gonna be debating me on a joke that wasn’t supposed to be taken seriously. If it was serious, I would specify.
So in the future if I see you say something that I feel is debatable. I should ask you if it’s a joke first?
Post then delete. Or, alternatively, post, then refuse to look at the replies for like 3 weeks because you’re not sure if they were trash or not
I’ve been doing this more recently.
There’s nothing like waking up to that empty inbox.
Recently, whenever I see something in my inbox, I think to myself “oh god, what dumb shit did I comment again”
Exactly. When am I gonna learn…?
I actualy worry more about having an inbox. I always feel like some dictator-worshipper is gonna reply and tell me how the country they simp for is a utopia. ahem .ml ahem
The next guy is gonna come through with an AI powered bulldozer anyways
Same, idk why I do that, it just feels that it’s not worth it. Makes no sense.
it just feels that it’s not worth it
people aren’t convinced by facts anyways, people believe what they want to believe (/s)
no but seriously though, type out your thoughts but please also remember that most people literally have very stressful lives and have absolutely no energy to be “educated” (told that they’ve been wrong until now) in their free time. always stay respectful, even when you’re clearly right and simply presenting facts. teaching is more emotional labor (having patience and empathy) than it is about the actual subject, IMO.
All the time. Mostly, it’s to help me clarify my own thoughts on the matter, but I can’t be arsed to write things out in a way that makes sense to others.
can’t be arsed to write things out in a way that makes sense to others
Lmaoooo so true. I be like 6 paragraphs deep frantically moving stuff around before giving up
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Your time is precious. Do not use it to engage with louts.
It’s a reddit habit. I feel it too.
