• Lexam
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    411 month ago

    I do this on comments. But not this comment.

  • @throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    I type like 1000 words, then I realized I’m gonna look so stupid if nobody reads it and it remains at 1 vote, so I just delete it before I embarass myself.

    (I don’t care about upvotes, I just want to get the acknowledgement that someone read it so I know my time wasn’t wasted.)

    Edit: I wish there was a “read” button. It’s for the times when you acknowledge reading it but you don’t like it enough to upvote it.

    Can someone add this to Lemmy? 👀

  • wildncrazyguy138
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    191 month ago

    Had the uno reverse of this the other day. I don’t want to respond to this to justify myself, but damned if I’m gonna let this mf have the last word.

  • @skarn@lemmy.today
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    Yes, I write more than twice the work emails than I send. I spend 15 minutes on slack composing a reasoned response with examples and references then edit it down to one sentence. Because I know from bitter experience noone reads long form, at least, not for work. They’d rather spend weeks back and forth on one liners with days in between responses, or only when prompted, than answer one email properly and the whole thjng sorted in a day. Even this is too long. But I’m going to hit submit before the urge to edit overhwlems me.

  • Higgs boson
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    1 month ago

    98% of everything I write gets deleted almost immediately. More if we count typos.

    • Victor
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      11 month ago

      Curious about the math you use to calculate that percentage. Show your work!

      • Higgs boson
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        11 month ago

        Hah! I would have estimated more like one percent but I do still type with a real keyboard occasionally, where I am markedly faster and more accurate. Nevertheless, I still delete most emails, notes, comments, etc without saving them.

        • Victor
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          11 month ago

          That’s really curious to me. I delete what must be less than 1% of the things I write with the intention to send. Maybe I’m reckless? Or maybe I think carefully enough before deciding on starting to type something worth sending? I dunno.

          But deleting almost one hundred percent of what you type, seems like a lot of wasted time at the keyboard, to me.

          • Higgs boson
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            11 month ago

            I type pretty fast, it is more just that my brain doesnt work very well. Many times I am writing things just to organize my thoughts.

            • Victor
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              11 month ago

              Okay, yeah. I wonder how long it took you to write those other 99 comment drafts that you discarded before sending this last one. Or the one before your latest comment. 😅😉

  • @tobis@lemm.ee
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    21 month ago

    More like “Oh god, what if they reply? I don’t have the time for this.”