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I kissed comment culture goodbye

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256 points spyckie2 | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 20:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.426s | source
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neko_ranger ◴[05 Sep 25 21:18 UTC] No.45143740[source]▶
I find typing the comment out, then deleting it and not submitting kinda gives my brain the 90% feeling of needing to say something. Only place I don't have to do this is 4chan, where the worst thing to happen is that your comment gets ignored or something mean is said to me (oh dear!)

I unironically just closed this tab before submitting out of habit and reopened it to submit this

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eterm ◴[05 Sep 25 21:21 UTC] No.45143763[source]▶
I've found increasingly I'll submit a comment only to go back 30 seconds later and delete it.
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1. anyfoo ◴[05 Sep 25 21:24 UTC] No.45143793[source]▶
I mostly do that when I go "that was a little bit mean of me... do I really need to be mean, what's the point?"

Fortunately, that seems to also have trained me to not write those comments in the first place. I also think much more about what I am trying to actually effect with a comment, not just about what feels good in the particular moment.

One thing that didn't change though is that probably most of my comments are edited at least once, often a few times, right after sending them. And even if it's just swapping out a word, or adding a missing comma. This one here is no exception at all, I just added this paragraph after doing some minor edits.