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I've gotten better, over time, at typing my heated, emotional response to someone online and then hitting Cancel or the back button and not posting. Sometimes
by brewdad 6y ago
I've gotten better, over time, at typing my heated, emotional response to someone online and then hitting Cancel or the back button and not posting.
Sometimes I do hit the Reply button though. I still have room for self-improvement. :-)
- ok_coo 6y agoThis is the point I got to when I realized I should no longer have an account and I just went ahead and deleted it. For about 6 months after, I thought I would reactivate and jump back in but it's been years now and I'm 100% sure it was a life improvement.
- SNosTrAnDbLe 6y agoThis! It always helps me to take time out and paste what you have on a different notepad and come back to it. Only hit send if it still makes sense.
- accountinhn 6y agoI do this a lot, especially in Reddit. Trick I learned is I use my notepad now to type the reply, then wait for an hour and post it. This helped with few things: 1. Slowly improving in checking for typos 2. Reading something after a break helps framing my point better and helps remove the heated emotion from the text 3. I also don't save the comment, so I have to spend time searching for it. This further helps in filtering the topics that I don't care about 4. Using services while not logged in, basically be a lurker
- specialist 6y agoNot gonna like. u/dang has had to scold me a few times. Improvement takes time. We certainly need more and better role models.
- dghughes 6y agoI've been doing that more recently too. I say to myself do I really want to do this? Or why am I getting involved in this? Especially Twitter where you can't unselect yourself from a conversation. My new mantra is the saying, "not my circus, not my monkeys".