I should do it much more often
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A lot. I’m self-aware enough to know that I have a huge hangup about “correctness” and “accuracy”. If someone makes claims, I want to see their evidence and I want to know how their evidence supports their claim. Unfortunately, with some people, they don’t understand what evidence is, they don’t care if other evidence disproves what they’re saying, and nothing I ask or say will suddenly cause them to respond in good faith. In those cases, but not all, I just drop it and delete my comments. It happens all the time and it’s always worth it.
About 1% of the time
like 60% of time, sometimes because I think 'Maybe I'm wrong' sometimes because I think 'If I start an argument I'll have to reply or else It's gonna be a lame start by me', so If I reply I must reply, and I'm lazy so I end up thinking I better keep my word to myself.
At least once a day.
Pretty much all the time, I'll write out really long diatribes, clearly explaining my position, backed up with research, and then
Too many times.
Not this time.
1:10
Not often enough.
8/10 replies
About 25% of the time I will start writing a comment only to find that I don’t think my argument is compelling enough, or otherwise is not something I feel makes a good point.
I've gotten pretty good at not writing them to begin with these days, usually. Sometimes I want to argue and fight <_<
Less often than I really should.
Quite a lot. Im not going to change anyone's mind.
It is usually not worth the argument if your goal is to persuade the person you are arguing with but it could be useful for persuading others that arent directly involved. If others have already taken a baseball bat to this person's argument or worst case scenario, it turns out the comment section very thoroughly agrees with them and shows no signs that they can be reasoned with, I won't bother.
Like 85% of the time
All the time If my reply contains an opinion, whether on politics, tech, or cheese, someone will attack.
Regularly. I probably don't post more than 10-15% of the comments I type out
That is what I do almost exclusively on Twitter - nobody is there for thoughtful and meaningful discussion, it's all propaganda and robots.
Well I think... Never mind
Not as often as I should.
There are just so many important things that need to be said though, especially these days.
Never, the argument is always worth it. I mostly got time to call someone out on their bullshit/bad joke/ misinformation post
A lot. I more conservative and vote Republican, so you can imagine the shit I have to read every day on Lemmy and Reddit...it's like a 24/7 hate fest for the Right. So, when I start to respond to something negative about Republicans..I just say forget...I'll just be down voted to hell, banned, cussed at...etc...