Sometimes I just delete it, sometimes I go ahead and post it and hope nobody responds.
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deletes his own comment without posting it after realizing he was wrong after defending what he now no longer believes in, for seven paragraphs
Sometimes multiple times in a row.
Sometimes on the same post.
I am never spending 20 minutes on any comment ever.
Good. Keep it that way. As someone who has done that (way more than I care to admit), it's honestly not worth it 99.99999999% of the time.
Happens on this platform too
I've written paragraphs and paragraphs about how calling someone stupid is not ad hominem. I've gone 20 comments into a thread trying to explain how analogies work. I'm currently in several arguments about the fact that water is, indeed, wet.
"wet - covered or saturated with water or another liquid."
I gotta go with the people you're arguing with on this one. Something has to be able to be dry to be able to be wet. Certain liquids can make other things wet, but cannot be wet themselves.
What can also mean consisting of liquid. You wouldn't bat an eye if I said not to touch the wall because the paint is still wet.
Yep. Me sometimes. Like you know the answer. It's simple and logical. The other person is obviously wrong and defending their position badly... But then you realise it's stupid to try and waste your time on a subject you don't even care about, to a person who cannot be educated.
But they have 3 upvotes and I'm at -2. Clearly everyone in this subreddit is wrong and I need to make them see that. (And then hate myself for it later on)
Someone gave some advice on a forum or a blog or something a long time ago that really stuck with me and completely altered my outlook about social media and interacting with people via the internet in general:
Before you hit "send", ask yourself whether this is for your benefit, or that of those who will see it.
I basically stopped using socials after that, because I seldom thought of anything that followed this rule, and my feed was so full of garbage from people who also didn't, but saw fit to post it anyway. The internet has given society an ego masturbation problem.
Hello ADHDers! It really is a health management skill to catch yourself and pull away. The worst is when you do care about the topic and you know you're mismanaging your time, it doesn't actually matter, but you can't not "finish it so at least it's out there"
Yup. I do this 100%. But mostly it's because sometimes I get so hot on the subject, it feels good to get it out there and then I worry I was too brash about it. A trick I use is to leave the comment written on my phone in the background. Maybe I'll send it, but more often than not I clear it out when I clean up my background apps and go, "Well, that was decided for me."
This is a good trick. I use this trick. Not often enough, but still.
I've wasted SO MANY hours arguing with stupid people on reddit....
I do this, and I have a "graveyard log" file where I paste my discarded posts and replies.
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