I am once again asking...

Too late, lurkers don't comment!

I still remember this epic comment from @cm0002@lemmy.world. It's funny because cm0002 is like one of the most active posters I see around.

And we're here for you.

How often did you contemplate posting this comment?

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.

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

I felt this in my bones.

Same, but I cannot even get to the reply phase. Also I am bad at commenting/posting anything good.

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.

The thing is, I feel like many people just add whatever they think and want to say to a conversation no matter how relevant or irrelevant it is to the current situation. In the end, I feel like most people on here are civil enough to not be mean-spirited towards one another unless they're talking to bigots and stuff.

I struggle with this quite often too - especially when it comes to topics that can be quite divide and polarising - but I always feel good once I do step out of my comfort zone and post away. There's usually bound to be at least a couple people with whom your comment resonates with. Give it a try maybe - you'd be surprised how well it can go :)

I feel you. I delete like half the comments I post and want to delete another half of what's left before I do, for the same sounding reasons.

I don't think people will be a dick to you on here, and if they are it won't be well received by anyone else.

If it helps, people seem to be a lot more open to questions and discussion here than on sites like reddit. Its pretty refreshing.

lurking intensifies

Walking lurkishly down the stairs

How decedent

I DON'T LIKE POSTING MUCH BECAUSE I AM TRASH

HI INFORMATIVE AND INSIGHTFUL RESPONSE

..... Nice.

Countries with the first-past-the-post electoral system perform similarly to autocracies when it comes to healthcare performance.

2 year old account

2 posts, 4 comments

One quarter of this user's comment history is them explicitly declining to stop lurking lmao

Gotcha

Now this, I like

cute, gecko? lizard? what species?

Honestly same, even this replay I hesitated before sending.

You should upload more of your photography stuff!

Look at this useless comment here smh

/s ;-)

even just voting helps.

Diagnosis: cat

Confidence: 80%

Too late...

Ladies and gentlemen... we got em.

Much better than screaming into the void of the same stupid jokes and bots on reddit though right?

I actually don't feel that way even on older posts that have already taken off. That's really nice about lemmy.

🔫 Give me another one right now

I'm glad someone else thinks of the zerg when lurkers are discussed.

Can't you talk while pooing?

Fine.

it was like a watershed moment when i realized opossums are just dumb and adorable and not scary at all but i never met an evil one

if everyone was as kind as that man, I think there would almost be no suffering in the world

An excuse to post a link to this article

Some of us comment and some of us post. You're a poster.

Don't feel bad, anyone who has more than a couple thousand comments on this platform is just a loser with no life

Remember upvotes are for comments that foster discussion (you can upvote even if you don't agree with them). Downvotes are for comments that don't foster discussion, such as bad actors and distasteful garbage spouting shitposts. You can also block users if you recognize they don't add value to your Lemmy experience

notices your jug of oil

UwU

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Making assumptions there, bud.

Locks eyes irritability

Are you brain fucked tho

Build it and they will come

Are you interested in finding more communities to subscribe to?

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca or !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl and similar resources help me personally to find ones I never knew about

I subscribe to nothing and just view All instead. If that doesn't work for you then maybe your instance defederated with a bunch of instances or something.

Yeah, I wish there was a more concerted effort to move more communities.

Bla bla Arch bla the way, bla bla bla... Bla bla bla bla!

You do a ritual to appease the Blood Gods, and beg to gain a fraction of their creativity for a moment in time.

Or you post about beans and potash.