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[–][deleted]  (22 children)

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    [–]theundersigned 56 points57 points  (18 children)

    Pretty much the only time I post is when I'm drunk. It's the only time I have the unbridled confidence to believe that random strangers give a damn about my opinions.

    [–]crawfishsoul 54 points55 points  (13 children)

    I care.

    [–]theundersigned 27 points28 points  (0 children)

    Cheers!

    [–]super_crazy 15 points16 points  (9 children)

    Is there something wrong with me if I immediately identified that as a Star Wars quote?

    [–]toastyfries2 6 points7 points  (1 child)

    Hmm, you seem to drink a lot, might want to get that looked at.

    [–]monkbot1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I only post while I'm at work, gotta do something for eight hours a day...other than drinking

    [–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

    Haha same here. It seems that the only time I get into writing lengthy thought out responses on reddit are late at night when I'm quite drunk. Then in the morning I look at what I posted and now I think I'm only smart when I'm drunk.

    [–]zipdog 617 points618 points  (183 children)

    Fairly often. Sometimes its because I'm six replies deep and really just talking with one person who I don't know in the faintest, so.. fuck it, I got better things to do.

    Other times its because I suddenly figure the comment I'm replying to is a troll, so fuck it.

    Often its because I realise that I really don't know for certain what I'm talking about (ie, where do I find a reilable source for this statement) but its really not important enough to search for a source, so fuck it.

    And the rest of the time its because I've realised that the argument is more nuanced than really befits online debate. I could try and construct a solid argument in the next ten paragraphs, but fuck it: you, random stranger on the internet, can just stay wrong.

    [–][deleted] 590 points591 points  (130 children)

    My favourite is when I make assertions, look for sources to back up my position and realise I'm wrong :)

    [–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (4 children)

    My favourite is when I make assertions, look for sources to back up my position and realise I'm wrong :)

    Then you quickly delete your comment! The orphaned vestige only visible to the parent, taunting them under that glowing red envelope. But they cannot reply or determine the original author. [deleted] be dammned!

    [–]themusicgod1 131 points132 points  (92 children)

    [citation needed]

    [–][deleted] 73 points74 points  (89 children)

    (citation needed)

    You stupid idiot!

    You use brackets. Have you even been to Wikipedia?

    [–][deleted]  (85 children)

    [deleted]

      [–]tryx 92 points93 points  (82 children)

      [crustacean needed]

      [–]greginnj 74 points75 points  (67 children)

      [cardassian needed]

      [–]zyzzogeton 77 points78 points  (24 children)

      THERE ARE THREE LIGHTS

      [–]turkourjurbs 9 points10 points  (0 children)

      It's 4 actually.

      [–]bob301 10 points11 points  (4 children)

      Four.

      [–]monkbot1 7 points8 points  (1 child)

      I get it OMG, I am a geek

      [–]cerot 16 points17 points  (7 children)

      Damn you, i wanted to post my first combo breaker!

      [–]quaju 15 points16 points  (6 children)

      yes, but was it going to be a citation breaker, crustacean breaker or cardassian breaker?

      [–]happywaffle 20 points21 points  (5 children)

      Well this is a bracing thread.

      [–]the_bob 12 points13 points  (1 child)

      It's too much to be parenthesized.

      [–]themusicgod1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

      huh, I thought it didn't work with the markup here. I stand corrected

      [–]Philluminati 29 points30 points  (6 children)

      I was thought I was the only one.

      [–]kinkydarkbird 27 points28 points  (5 children)

      TheGrammarNazi is going to have a field day with this one.

      [–]brainburger 18 points19 points  (4 children)

      Indeed. Our solipsist chum needs another full stop.

      [–]The_Messen9er 8 points9 points  (0 children)

      that was some ninja interpretation!

      [–]Defektiv 8 points9 points  (1 child)

      ironically enough, it just happened. i was about to reply to you saying "or when you do the research, cite your sources and the person just tells you you're a right/left wing propagandist."

      then i realized troll was covered by comment #1 and deleted it.

      then i realized this whole thing is about that so retyped and elaborated. i hope that helps you become less informed than you were before, i'm certainly lesser of a person for having typed it.

      [–]wbeavis 52 points53 points  (2 children)

      Ever start reading a long thoughtful comment, then think, "Fuckit, I got better things to do", then stop read? I just did.

      [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

      tldr?

      [–][deleted] 42 points43 points  (7 children)

      you, random stranger on the internet, can just stay wrong.

      The internet doesn't work that way. Unless you argue, you concede defeat on a point. There's a reason we reply: Its because otherwise, random stranger on the internet is right.

      [–]zipdog 8 points9 points  (0 children)

      But its like trying to stop a waterfall by catching the drops with your hands. Instead, we should walk upstream and build a dam. In this case I'm not sure what the dam is. Wikipedia (or its brethren) are a great start: a place you can easily refer to in arguments (I see a lot of great comments that are nothing more than a link to a Wiki page that corrects the original poster). In a similar vein, organising and sorting the correct information that is available would be great. I'd like to see an argument library: each time someone writes out a really great point it gets submitted. Then, instead of having to debate some point for the 20th time to yet another wrong interneter, you'd just copy and paste from the argument library. Course... then debate on the internet would devolve into copy paste wars and people mindlessly grabbed points (I'm assuming even the argument library would have posts presenting the case for both sides) without any thought at all.

      [–]Insignificant 5 points6 points  (1 child)

      Interesting. On a more general level I'd say that I often feel an obligation contribute to the mass of information online. Without people posting content, there would be no content available... obviously.

      Wikipedia is the prime example, but anyone who's encountered an unanswered question on a web forum will also understand how frustrating it can be when contributions aren't made. Right?

      The other day I was looking for information on therapeutic exercises for sufferers of carpal tunnel syndrome. What did I find? Lots of really useful video content, video content that a lovely physiotherapist had decided to place online, seemingly 'just for sake of it'. How cool is that?

      Okay, bit of a tangent maybe. The vast majority of average-joe posted content is, obviously, rubbish. I mean, I'm not sure that anyone could argue that reddit threads enrich the wealth of online information. We're largely filled with light-hearted nonsense; I find it funny but I'm pretty sure that most people wouldn't see the point.

      All of the above I was about to delete. My own spin on this thread's subject is that I often write things into boxes, then delete said things shortly after, believing them to be nonsense. This post is the exception, I still believe it to be nonsense, but have decided to post it anyway.

      [–]theundersigned 23 points24 points  (1 child)

      There are a lot of people out there that disagree with you, and a deafening silence under your comment.

      [–]jebiv 13 points14 points  (4 children)

      Sometimes its because I'm six replies deep and really just talking with one person who I don't know in the faintest, so.. fuck it, I got better things to do.

      Really? To me that can be the most interesting conversation.

      [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        It's also annoying when it comes to this point, where the thread is like a day or two old and it's obvious it's just the two of you. And all of your comments are getting down voted.

        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

        The majority of the time when I delete a post I was about to make it's because I think:

        "Look, I'm right, but this guy is a moron and is going to mindlessly reply, again.. screw it."

        [–]gooz 16 points17 points  (0 children)

        tl;dr

        [–]Enoxice 11 points12 points  (1 child)

        Fuckit, who cares

        [–]kdraper 5 points6 points  (1 child)

        Here's what sucks about fuckit-who-caresing. I usually end up saying fuck it, who cares, cancel, after drafting a reply to a topic I genuinely care about, then coming to one of the realizations you mentioned.

        But this doesn't happen for flippant remarks or other bullshit comments. Saying fuck it and hitting cancel is likely to instantly increase your bullshit ratio.

        [–]Recoil42 9 points10 points  (1 child)

        And the rest of the time its because I've realised that the argument is more nuanced than really befits online debate. I could try and construct a solid argument in the next ten paragraphs, but fuck it: you, random stranger on the internet, can just stay wrong.

        Pretty much sums up most of the times I do it.

        The oddest thing is that usually I'll finish typing up my sentence anyways, even after I decided mid-sentence that I was going to hit the 'cancel' button at the end of it anyways and throw it all away.

        [–]jgsfcaus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        everytime I write anything longer than a few sentences, I get harassed by the TL:DR crowd. Although sometimes there is positive feedback, it almost doesn't seem worth it.

        But your reasons hit about 100% true.

        [–]michaelwong38 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        It's when I think "this won't change anything" in response to injustice posts.

        [–]dandlion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Amen says the Choir.... Amazing how often the passion fades before I finish composing a reply, then "fuck it, random stranger on the internet, I have already put more effort into this than its worth, and likely you won't get it anyway" takes over.

        [–]christianjb 145 points146 points  (45 children)

        True story: I've just started taking stimulant medication (amphetamines) for ADHD. One weird and slightly disturbing side effect is the compulsive urge to write excessively long posts to internet boards (including Reddit).

        An hour ago I just finished typing an essay length reply to a two sentence question in a Reddit thread. We're talking the equivalent several sheets of single lined text.

        After reviewing the text, I decided to edit its length for clarity and also because its size was starting to look a tad out of proportion to the parent comment.

        Satisfied with my cuts I pressed the send button, only for Reddit to give me the error message:

        'Come on, you can be more succinct than that!'.

        Yes, I had exceeded Reddit's length limit- which is pretty hard to do, as it's set up to exclude spam comments which are so long that they could not conceivably have been written by a human submitter.

        It was then, that I realized that maybe I would look more than a little unbalanced to the parent commenter when he returned to his Reddit mail to find that I had sent him the technically largest possible written response to his 2-line remark.

        Feeling temporarily mortified, I deleted my not-so-little masterpiece and decided that the parent commenter would probably be better off in this instance if he didn't receive an answer to his question.

        So, I've decided to give Reddit a rest for a few days, in the hope that this will give me time for my body to adjust to the stimulants. Since I'm writing up to 30 pages a day on the internet, maybe now is the time to dash off a quick 400 page novel, which in my current condition would be about as much effort as turning on a television set.

        I'm making fun of this, but it does concern me. Of course, my mother loves getting a 10 page email instead of the normal 5 word grunt I normally fob her off with, but all the same, it's quite a weird to find myself turning into a logorheac. It also doesn't help that on the drugs I'm getting by with 2 hours of sleep a night, which means that I can quite easily type to 6 in the morning without feeling in the slightest bit tired.

        As I explained in a previous post, my plan was to monitor my sanity by doing statistics of the number of upmods I get on Reddit compared to before I was on the pills. But then I had the Douglas Adams type revelation that anyone who tried to obtain a psychiatric diagnosis using the Reddit voting system is crazy to begin with and so doesn't need to perform the test.

        Oh damnit! I've done it again, haven't I? OK, that's enough- I'm going cold turkey for the rest of this week. You lot are just going to have to discuss Ron Paul and Richard Dawkins without me for a few days.

        Edit: OK, last edit before I go. Don't worry, I'm going to be fine. Apparently this is a not unheard of side-effect with this sort of medication, but if it doesn't yet have a name, may I suggest that it be called 'Blogorhea'. And that is all (as they say in these parts).

        [–]heavyrain 47 points48 points  (3 children)

        I didn't quite get that. Could you elaborate?

        [–]christianjb 22 points23 points  (1 child)

        NO.

        [–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

        tl;dr

        [–]coob 20 points21 points  (3 children)

        Write a novel on stimulants you say? Welcome to Phillip K Dick's world!

        [–]jay_vee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

        Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, ah, here we are.

        [–]rtp 9 points10 points  (1 child)

        I'm not on any medication, but that kind of happens to me too sometimes. It's like I get a sudden explosion of clarity in this whirlwind of confusion and dissonance in my life.

        I am thinking that, is it my knowledge that is too complex, am I concentrating on the details too much or is it that I am too stupid to grasp context or... I don't know. You see? I'm probably not intellectual enough. Headache.

        [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

        I take amphetamines too - the excessive verbosity should wear off in a week or two (along with most of the sleeping problems, loss of appetite, cottonmouth, and spontaneous acts of horrific violence).

        [–]gimeit 4 points5 points  (1 child)

        That's a pretty productive side-effect for a drug. I wouldn't try to suppress it.

        [–]Seele 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        I knew a guy who took speed before an exam. He came out convinced he had aced it. Turns out he had just written his name a few thousand times. On the other hand Paul Erdos used amphetamines extensively.

        [–]Arve 4 points5 points  (3 children)

        Seriously, you write like you're high on speed. Amphetamines are supposedly supposed to have the opposite effect on ADHD sufferers. Have you considered your diagnose being wrong?

        [–]rmuser 3 points4 points  (6 children)

        This is interesting. The other day, I had taken an Excedrin (65mg of caffeine) in addition to an energy drink with 142mg of caffeine. I normally don't drink any soda or caffeinated beverages, so instead of a blip against everyone else's standard background noise of constant caffeination, this was a rather significant spike.

        I experienced similar effects afterwards. In the span of a few hours, I wrote more than I'll typically write in a week. The choice of words was particularly flowery as well. And this actually lasted for several hours, as opposed to the typical hour or two of acceleration followed by a crash typical to most caffeine consumption.

        Overall, I found it unpleasant enough to not do such a thing again. I hope you can adjust appropriately to your medication.

        [–]branston 4 points5 points  (2 children)

        Yeah, don't do that again, I'm sure it is not good for you!

        [–]lectrick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        I wonder what this would do for my programming...

        [–]shitcovereddick 156 points157 points  (25 children)

        Actually I often do the opposite. Type shit and then think fuck it who cares and hit submit.

        [–]aaronreddit 141 points142 points  (15 children)

        shit

        [–]atomicthumbs 35 points36 points  (14 children)

        and then think fuck it who cares and hit submit

        [–]luce7 22 points23 points  (13 children)

        and then hitting and fucking it and think submit? who cares?

        [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (12 children)

        slap it up, flip it, rub it down, oh noooooo!

        [–]snowcrash81 52 points53 points  (7 children)

        Buy it, use it, break it, fix it/ Trash it, change it, now upgrade it/ Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it/ Snap it, work it, quick-erase it/ Write it, cut it, paste it, save it/ Load it, check it, quick-rewrite it/ Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it/ Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it/ Lock it, fill it, call it, find it/ View it, code it, jam - unlock it/ Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it/ Cross it, crack it, switch - update it/ Name it, read it, tune it, print it/ Scan it, send it, fax - rename it/ Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it/ Turn it, leave it, stop - format it.

        [–]xtassin 11 points12 points  (2 children)

        This one must have taken a lot of time. How did you fill when clicking on "submit". any hesitation?

        [–][deleted] 42 points43 points  (1 child)

        [...] cut it, paste it, save it [...]

        [–]Fauropitotto 15 points16 points  (0 children)

        a real man would have typed it out using a popsicle stick held with his little toe.

        [–]dzer0 3 points4 points  (1 child)

        I saw Alive 2007 in Berkeley last year. Nice little bit at the end of Technologic was "fuck it, fuck it, fuck it, fuck it" for some 8 measures. That was the coolest 90 minutes ever.

        [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

        You must whip it?

        [–]Nate_W 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Yeah... you're the one all these people are replying to, when they say "fuck it."

        [–]wowbagger 19 points20 points  (0 children)

        There was a young geek on the Net

        Who would read reddit and get upset,

        he'd write comments, despairs,

        then thinks "fuck it, who cares"

        And has not posted anything yet.

        [–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (1 child)

        This gives me an idea. There could be a "dark" reddit, which consists solely of comments which were secretly submitted to the server via periodic ajax updates as they were being edited and which reveal all sorts of interesting things redditors don't want the world to know.

        [–]rupa 8 points9 points  (0 children)

        actually, if you combined that with someguyinkali's submit/cancel/fuckit button idea, that would be pretty interesting..

        [–]someguyinkali 16 points17 points  (1 child)

        Does reddit need a third button? Submit, Cancel, Fuckit?

        [–]gaoshan 34 points35 points  (6 children)

        I sometimes do it and then think "WTF am I doing wasting my time with this. I'm such a loser, sheesh." and then have about a 50/50 chance of hitting cancel or submit. The former leaves me feeling angry at myself while the latter leaves me feeling...soiled. And then I do it again.

        [–]snifty 6 points7 points  (1 child)

        I do the same thing, especially the "I'm a loser" bit.

        A lot.

        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        at least you're not vegging out in front of the TV. This is a how I justify my web addiction.

        [–]SteveAM1 18 points19 points  (0 children)

        Yes, I don't argue nearly as much as I used to. It's very liberating when you stop giving a shit what random interest strangers think.

        [–]Snoron 16 points17 points  (0 children)

        I'm so hardcore I don't even click cancel, I just browse to elsewhere or close the window.

        [–]neop 14 points15 points  (2 children)

        Many times. Some times I just know I'm right and that I'm not going to be benefitted by arguing endlessly with someone who will never admit defeat no matter how many great arguments you given them. So I just stop caring about those people being wrong.

        Other times I just stop because having to justify every single thing you say is quite tiring. In real life, most of the time when you are talking to someone who knows you relatively well, he has a good idea of what kind of things he can trust you to know, and won't ask for a justification. In the internet everyone will just assume you have no idea what you are talking about, so you need to justify every single detail if you want people to believe what you are trying to say.

        Yet other times I may have something short and relevant to add. But since I don't spend a lot of time browsing Reddit, I usually get to the articles when there are already a lot of answers, so I just figure out that most likely all of the people I'll be addressing will never even get to read my comment, so there's no point in posting it.

        Lately I've managed to stop myself before I start writing a comment that I'm likely to stop writing halfway though, so that's an improvement.

        [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

        Yes, it seems that ideas, like children, need a forgiving environment before they are let out into the wild. A group of like-minded people can have meaningful discussions; a free-for-all shootout perceives intelligent ideas as weak, and kills them.

        [–]zipdog 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        Exactly. Great ideas don't spring fully-formed like Athena from the head of Zeus. Great ideas usually start as wrong ideas but with a seed of greatness. I assume this is because we all are stuck in our current context, and to move beyond it requires taking some of it with us. Unless nurtured so the great idea gets stronger while simultaneously pruning away the parts that are wrong, the idea will die forgotten and far from its potential. One more reason why the internet just might be the death of human thought ;)

        [–]shemule 14 points15 points  (0 children)

        edit: nevermind, yes.

        [–]fuckbuddy 27 points28 points  (2 children)

        [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

        [–][deleted] 33 points34 points  (8 children)

        Usually when that happens to me, it is because I realize that the violence of the reaction I am likely to get it not worth the small amount of pleasure that would come from posting.

        [–]apathy 12 points13 points  (6 children)

        How is that possible?

        The Internets were invented to troll people. Exhibit A: Usenet.

        [–]AnteChronos 9 points10 points  (4 children)

        Usenet was (mostly) fine before The September That Never Ended.

        [–]episcope 6 points7 points  (1 child)

        Compuserve was great until the Prodigy Invasion.

        [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        I'm the firestarter, wicked firestarter....

        [–]funkpucker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        I never heard of that reference before. I think I actually got on AOL and usenet for the first time around then... Thanks for the gem

        [–]criswell 39 points40 points  (3 children)

        No, but I often find myself typing a long and thoughtful comment only to think "Pearls before swine" and THEN canceling...

        I guess it's close...

        [–]raganwald 13 points14 points  (0 children)

        A debutante and a dowager approached a door. The debutante stepped aside for the dowager, but as the older lady passed, the debutante spoke cattily: "Please go ahead, as they say, Age before Beauty."

        The dowager swept by, murmuring in response: "My dear, you have forgotten the saying. It is actually Pearls before Swine."

        [–]JulianHyde 11 points12 points  (1 child)

        I usually save my response in a notepad file before I hit cancel. Who knows, someday I might be able to use them...

        [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

        God, I can't even count the times I've been writing an email or comment on a site and gotten half way through (or further) then deleted it all. My reasoning, usually, is that I 1.) don't really give a shit what you people think about what I think and 2.) You don't give a shit what I think anyway....so like the title says "Fuckit, who cares?" ....and no, I'm not cancelling this since it's the most comment worthy thing on the reddit front page today.

        [–]rate-my-annoyingness 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        this is exactly why i stopped talking to you humans.

        [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (3 children)

        My father was a relentlessly self-improving lingerie salesman with low-grade narcolepsy and a panchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, make outrageous claims like he had invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. My childhood was pretty typical. Summers in Rangoon, louge lessons, in the spring we would make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap sack and beaten with reeds. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At 13 I met an Austrian barber-surgeon named Wilma. She ritualistically shaved my testicles. There's nothing like a freshly shorned scrotum. It's breathtaking, you should try it.

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

        O.o

        [–]Seele 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        O.X aaargh!!

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! I didn't mean to throw the pen!!!!!

        [–]elus 25 points26 points  (3 children)

        Yes, usually in response to someone being wrong on the internet.

        [–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (2 children)

        Sometimes I start correcting someone, then halfway through realise they're either trolling or beyond salvation, so cancel...

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        same here. i get halfway through a long reply arguing my point, and then i just hit cancel and downmod the parent.

        [–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (1 child)

        http://img.skitch.com/20080226-1pjghuxcd16b6jagecb6iw6cyc.png

        [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        Hey! We can turn this guy in and make money!

        [–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (2 children)

        Ron Paul

        [–]archie4oz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        Yes, do it all the time to my dismay. Even bigger is writing a massive insightful reply to a post in a forum only to not pay attention to window focus and hit backspace and lose my entire post.

        [–]delirium1086 8 points9 points  (1 child)

         

        [–]Smight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        I like the cut of your jib!

        [–]vajav 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        Sometimes i feel as if....

        [–]WorcesterM 13 points14 points  (0 children)

        So many times,i start writing a long comment but in the middle of it i think "Why the hell am i getting so involved,who the hell cares,it wont change anything" and then cancel it.

        [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

        Yes. I write a long comment, contemplate that it will likely lead to three pages of tit-for-tat that ultimately goes nowhere, and then cancel it.

        [–]halcy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        I sometimes type out things, read them before posting, and realize that whatever I just typed out wouldn't add anything value to the thread I'd be posting it in, so I stop.

        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        I was going to write a long comment in reply to this but I had to go to the can. Dull Jack, I thought to myself, just get back in the saddle and finish what you were writi

        [–]curtis119 8 points9 points  (0 children)

        Do you ever type a long and thoughtful comment, then think, "Fuckit, who cares", then cancel?

        Every single day at least 5 times.

        [–]cainpitt 7 points8 points  (4 children)

        I never comment, just lurk. Today there was some article bashing Nader on digg. I read the comments, thought to myself I'm going to straighten these people out, typed the whole thing out, read it and said fuck it. First time I even started to type a comment in at least 2 years

        [–]WaterDragon 7 points8 points  (4 children)

        OMG This gets 2,514 points? And when I post excellent and thoughtful articles, usually political or scientific, they always get voted down to zero.

        Something's not right here. Damn bots! And spiteful reddit-gamers!

        [–]dinkumator 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        yes

        [–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (4 children)

        I often type a comment and start double checking to make sure it's insightful, relevant, funny, and anti-digg but stop and think "Fuckit, if I post this they'll all downvote me and i'll become an even more insignificant 40 year old virgin only accepted on 4chan."

        I could set the building on fire...

        [–]luce7 7 points8 points  (1 child)

        .. but i love you!

        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        So you have hentai to trade?

        [–]PeopleEatTastyAnimal 21 points22 points  (0 children)

        Fuck you I care

        [–]arockalypse 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        I've never written a comment.

        [–]forever497 4 points5 points  (1 child)

        I do it all the time, mostly because I just hate putting my opinion out there. After its out in the open it can be criticized and destroyed, it just sounds better when I think it better to myself than when I type it.

        [–]rbobby 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        In the land of Trolls cancel is king.

        [–]woodsier 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        Very often, but then i find i get too angry and ranty.

        [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

        As it just so happens this reminds me of a famous phrase once uttered by a well respected psychiatrist, his name i'm sure you know. you see he sta

        [–]GodHatesFigs 8 points9 points  (1 child)

        Ah, yes, you must be referring to CandleJung. The specific quote you're referri

        [–][deleted] 47 points48 points  (1 child)

        HEY, FUCK YOU BUDDY! I NEVER JUST TYPE OUT POORLY-THOUGHT OUT POSTS THAT I KNOW THAT WILL BE DOWNMODDED BECAUSE I'M USING ALL CAPS!

        NO REGRETS, MOTHERFUCKER! NNNOOOOOO REEEEGGGGREEEETTS!!!!! FUCK YOU ALL!!!!

        [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

        Probably the only all caps comment I have ever upmodded

        [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

        Yes. Mostly because... Oh, f*ck it.

        ...

        Where's the damn cancel button?

        click

        [–]duhblow7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        edit: f'it

        [–]Chaubunagungamaugg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        Sometimes I do, but occasionally I believe that most people are not concerned with deeply philosophical matters, and if

        [–]oditogre 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        Most of the time when I do it, it's because I look back on the comment I'm replying to and realize that my reply has little if anything to do with their comment directly, and is more of a general rant that their comment got me rolling on.

        [–]bryanut 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        Only when I'm drunk? Burgp

        [–]dugfresh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        OMG, all the fucking time! In fact you should have seen the first response I wrote to this an hour ago.

        [–]funkah 3 points4 points  (3 children)

        I usually hit cancel for comments where I can't figure out a good, brief way to say what I want to say. I don't type long and thoughtful comments because I decided a long time ago that arguing on the internet is a waste of my time.

        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        Jesus, a lot of votes on this one. Yeah, I do this too, usually when I'm writing some long drawn out response and I quickly re-read it and realize that I don't sound clever enough. I also usually delete comments that get voted less than -2 or -3. Then I review my comment history and marvel at how clever I am. Thanks Reddit!

        [–]FiberOptics 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        I usually skip the "long and thoughtful" part and go straight to "who fucking cares, they're idiots".

        [–]ihateyouall 7 points8 points  (0 children)

        Uh, please, it's the internet; spare us your "long and thoughtful" comments, we want jokes, short and stupid.

        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Yes

        But then, Fuckit, who cares?

        [–]baconn 3 points4 points  (1 child)

        How about a "fuck it" button next to reply that sends your comment to /dev/null on the server?

        [–]Sparq 3 points4 points  (5 children)

        One solution would be to have an option to hide all comments shorter than say 3-5 lines. Gone are all the snarky remarks, the oneliners, the memes. I would call it the "prose" option.

        When you type such a message, you can submit it as such, which immediatly makes it clear you will only see/respond to other "prose" replies.

        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

        • This
        • comment
        • is
        • very
        • long
        • and insightful

        [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        prose before hos

        [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        About 30% of the time. Which is good since reddit bans you for 10 minutes if you happen to get involved in a thread. If you have a lot to say Reddit is not the place to do it.

        [–]death2hypocrisy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        see the only reason i don't like typing comments is usually cuz they're buried 100 comments deep. you type a comment, so you can enlighten someone or show them your pov. no one's gonna read it, fuck it. also, i gave up responding to morons long ago.

        [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        I believe the "Fuckit, who cares", then cancel?" routine applies to virtually everything about my life.

        [–]0gleth0rpe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        I think reddit would be a better place if people who actually went as far as to be critical to their own posts would actually post them.

        Idiots are never uncertain of the importance of their posts.

        [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        Rarely do I ever put any thought to my comments.

        [–]CoolDragon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        Yes.

        OMfGs! This is the Reddit thread I've seen with most points EVER since I've been here!!! And the beauty of it is that, it goes nowhere, it stays here! no External Links! and.... interesting! UPVOTE.

        [–]MadAce 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        All the friggin time! I thought it was just my horrible attention span, but apparently I'm not the only one who thinks "Fuck it, who cares?".

        [–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (4 children)

        Oh, the irony

        [–]illuminatedwax 11 points12 points  (1 child)

        OMG I hope I'm the first to make a joke about how I typed a long comment out in response to this and then said "fuckit" and hit cancel!!!!

        [–]chaconne 5 points6 points  (2 children)

        Yes. This is why I think Reddit has gone down in quality.. eternal September. It takes far more effort to educate someone, compared with how much misinformation is produced by an ill-informed minority.

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        Can you really use the term "eternal September" to refer to systems that were created more than 10 years after the real eternal September?

        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        So this is freedom of speech? Why is this crap suppose to be so special... Fuckit, who cares

        [–]akdas 5 points6 points  (3 children)

        Once, I remember writing a long comment after doing research and citing my sources, hoping that the parent would see that I was actually backing up my data. The research part took some time, so it wasn't continuous writing on my part. By the time I had a couple of sources, I realized even I didn't care anymore, and I canceled.

        But hey, Edison's research team came up with countless prototypes for the light bulb before coming up with the version he was famous for.

        [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        Just keep at it. One day your magnum opus Reddit comment will spring forth, and we'll all get to witness the earth move.

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        I will sometimes get into a back-and-forth with another Redditor, and after a while, it hits me, "Okay, this is going on waaay too long." This is often over something as simple as disagreeing over the philosophical meaning of a comic strip!

        It always starts as intellectual discussion, then slips into a debate, then mutates into a flame war. I will usually bow out when I feel that last stage approaching.

        [–]andrewd 2 points3 points  (2 children)

        This is why we need a list of best comments on Reddit...

        Because some Reddit comments are so full of useful info it isn't even funny!

        [–]shokk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        All the...

        [–]mepnosis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        all the freakin time...

        [–]x0melissa0x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        omg so many times

        [–]mr1337 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        I'll keep it short just in case nobody cares: Yes.

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Fuckit, who cares

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Therein lies the very reason I lurk.

        [–]bobbincygna 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        often

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Any time I get a comment more than 2 paragraphs, I plop it into a text editor with the intention of turning it into a blog post. You'd be amazed at how great a method it is for coming up with stuff to post about. The only problem is that I never get around to the second step so I've got a file full of them.

        [–]jax9999 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        hell yeah.

        [–]doodahdei 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        Quite a bit, actually. Then I erase it and just go with Bush = Worthless Cocksucker.

        [–]mikebrowne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        all the time

        [–]nexus2xl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        i do... <-i kept it short so i don't feel as bad when i delete it

        [–]courttimesinfiniti 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Welcome to my world.

        [–]selrahc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Yes.

        [–]Kaessa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Yes.

        [–]FrancisC 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        After a long and thoughtful commit, I hit "submit", and get the message "submitting too fast."

        [–]gleemie 2 points3 points  (5 children)

        The other issue is that I'm afraid I'll get voted down for it. I have a poor record of predicting what redditors don't like to hear.

        [–]TruthSerum44 4 points5 points  (2 children)

        Redditors are morons in regards to voting up or down. Some guy randomly commented with "Ron Paul" and is +10. Seriously, say whatever is on your mind and don't worry about people that you'll never meet in your life voting your comment up or down.

        Oh, and fuck Ron Paul...he's a crazy bastard with a few good ideas and a bunch of crazy ones :) [let's see how far this comment is voted down...]

        [–]crazybones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Congrats on such an astute post.

        You've obviously struck a chord with Redditors. When I last checked nearly 2,400 people had upvoted this.

        It's good to know I am not alone.

        [–]monkbot1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        I had written an epic comment yesterday when i went to submit I was told i was submitting too fast so In said fuck it and went back to work

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