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- Presses reply
- Types an insightful comment
- Looks at it. There’s something wrong with it. He just doesn’t know what.
- Erases it. Starts over.
- *Still doesn’t feel right *
- Hits cancel, discards the comment, and goes back to doom scrolling.
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How often did you contemplate posting this comment?
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A couple times haha
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I can tell with the editing lol
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I worry the same way, but mostly just when I'm commenting on something hurtful. Like if a commenter is being agonizingly wrong about something really important, spreading lies, you know the kind. I'll get worked up and start writing a comment, but realize that any point I make can be nitpicked and invalidated even if it's broadly correct. So I don't post those comments.
But when it's not in response to someone being inflammatory, I feel better about just doing my best with what I write. If someone has a correction, well that's a good thing! I'll acknowledge it and edit my comment to include the better info I'm given. I can hope that the people reading it don't see that I was wrong on one point and decide I'm completely wrong because I try to interact respectfully.
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>writes three paragraph comment
>edits comment for 10 minutes to make it as succinct as possible
>realizes it has nothing to do with parent comment
>deletes comment
Back on reddit, a good half of the comments I would have left got deleted as soon as I posted them. Lemmy has forced me to make sure I've said something relevant, because if I leave a comment and then delete it, everyone gets to know that I did that, and that makes me feel even worse than saying something slightly off topic
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I mean, if it is not related to a specific "parent comment", you could simply post it as a 1st rank comment to the post instead?
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I felt this in my bones.
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Same, but I cannot even get to the reply phase. Also I am bad at commenting/posting anything good.
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I figure that there are plenty of other people that can tell me what's wrong with my comment, so just post it and let others work for you for free.