Anyone in a coining mood? If one doesn't already exist, there needs to be a term for writing a blog comment or Twitter update, thinking better of it, and then discarding it by closing the browser tab without clicking "Post". As in: "Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I ________ it instead." Any ideas?
Sounds like you "backed out" to me. Not a new word, but we don't always need new words.
Perhaps "abandoned"?
"ex'ed"
Jason
From my time working in restaurants as a server and as a waiter, the term "eighty-six" is what we would use to cancel something.
As in, " Hey eighty six that order of ribs, the customer wants a steak instead."
Further bolstering of the 86 cause.
The word that popped in my head was popped (as in balloon)
Jason
From my time working in restaurants as a server and as a waiter, the term "eighty-six" is what we would use to cancel something.
As in, " Hey eighty six that order of ribs, the customer wants a steak instead."
Further bolstering of the 86 cause.
Also this.
de-sponded?
Clabbed.
"Shrugged" came to mind. As in, "How do I feel about this post? *shrug*"
Doesn't really apply to posts abandoned because one thought better, as opposed to abandoning over apathy. So we'd need another name for that, perhaps.
*shrug*
Untabbed?
recontwittered
I like de-sponded!
How bout "fragged" To kill one of your own.
Simple enough - "clabbed" as in "close-tabbed". Rhymes with crabbed.
screwed it.
pizza upskirt?
"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I shrat it instead."
shredded + shit = shrit
commit commenticide.
Postus interruptus?
"de-posted"?
"Effoured". As in Alt+F4, for Windows folks. Alternately, "Kit-wubbed" for Ctrl+W.
I've always used "exed." "Ah crap, I exed it."
i guess "defenestrated" only works on a PC. . .
Ctrl-W'ed it? Nuked it?
p.s. Jason, when I press Tab in the URL box to toggle to the "Post comments" button, the page jumps up to the top...
Clorked. click + bork
"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I clorked it instead."
I would have posted my new coinage, but then thought better of it. (Thank you, I'll be here all week.)
I thought of "nuked" first and then "trashed" but the focus is on the fact that the comment or update goes into a digital black hole. Maybe "suctioned" or "vaccumed" would work better. I'd better stop now and post this comment.
"cwop" (closed without posting). "I was going to comment but I cwopped out instead."
Bilked. It's a real word, but possibly appropriate. You cheat someone out of your words, assuming that it won't be appropriate or others won't be interested. If that's not the case, an alternate definition applies, as you evade or escape from writing something potentially meh.
...but I bleeped it...
it's gone
Easy: Pop! As in: "I was gonna write you a comment, but i popped it. Understandable by nerds and gangster alike.
Dry heaved.
I was going to say 'pizza upskirt' but somebody named scott beat me to it.
I, like Derek above, have always said "I exed it." But I'm warming to "de-sponded"...
I like de-sponded as well, but my contribution is "cansed" (combo of cancel and closed).
It sounds like you "squibbed" it.
I was initially going to suggest "depost" or "unpost", but that made me think of "compost", which is intriguing because of the connotation that the original post was garbage so you're going to recycle it. :-) It would probably only work if you used the verb "post" earlier in the sentence, as in "I was going to post an angry reply, but decided to compost it instead." On second thought, it might just be confusing...
+ 1 for "nuked"
You could also combine "blog" and "nuke" to make bluked. Another variation would be "click" plus "nuke" to get cluked (similar to Erik's "clorked").
"disposted" ?
blue-balled it
Doesn't "scrapped" cover it?
Or maybe "snubbed", just because it sounds good.
junked
"Checked"
as in a check-swing in baseball
shrugged.
I always tell myself I'm tabling the motion/post/tweet.
Desponded FTW.
I feel like the term will be able to ring more true if we think less of the action needed (closing the tab) and more on what you are really trying to accomplish along with how this differers from the real world.
I like to think these comments / posts would have been things we *would* have said if we were face to face and then wished we could take back to save our selves embarrassment.
With the wonder of the internet we get to type it out and then think about it to see if it's too mean or not helpful.
With the ideas of embarrassment and wanting to quietly pass on I think perhaps the idea of suicide maps to what you are trying to do. Which gives us this:
"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I decided to commit commentcide instead."
but perhaps it's not catchy enough.
"chicken out"? usually that's why you discard a comment after typing, as you found it not worth while, redundant, or meaningless... all in your head out of fear.
I defragulated it...
bottled it?
I nearly "mucked" this idea.
mE-censored
I vote for "W'd." Pronounced, "Double-you'd." Referencing the key-command to close the window.
Did you comment? I was going to, but decided to commain't instead.
slog - slogged - slogging
"Pulled out"
As in...uh...you can figure it out.
"Blerg", a la 30 Rock.
"DNS'ed", as in "Did Not Save".
Of course, "DNS" is already a well-known web acronym, so perhaps "DNP'ed" could be used instead ("Did Not Post").
I second "cwopped" - has vague connotation of "copped out" in my mind too.
Punted
The thinking on "blerg" would be that you're either not expressing yourself as you wanted (prompting a frustrated exclamation), the initial impetus left you (a deflated, resigned utterance), or time isn't available (a flustered, harried cry), for any of which Tina Fey would say "blerg".
How about a conflation of toss and post?
I'll leave the spelling up to you but I'd pronounce it "toast."
retracted it.
toasted it.
closeted it.
swatted it.
twatted it.
kicked it.
got over it.
threw up a little in my mouth.
punted
doinked
"resisted it". As in, did not submit (get it?) :-)
hahaha -- I was going to post a reply, but then i got over it...
I agree with "chickened out"
You want it to be a known verb, in English perhaps, regular, so it can be easily conjugated in the passive voice, and used with the 'ed suffix. Also, you need something that plays well with the LOLcats syntax.
I had a comment, but I ated it.
It might be Twitter-specific, but you could have "twix'd" it.
Twitter + nix'd = twix'd
... but I "nahed"
As in do I really want to post this? Nah.
Although I like cwoped it to.
Dinged it.
Dispost, Disposted.
If you closed out a page, you X-ed. Nothing needs to be made up, its already being used.
prelete
"I composed a Twitter post as I was sneaking into Disney World after hours, but thought better and flushed it."
retconned.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retcon)
Tabandoned?
Think of all the self-referential jokes that were about to be submitted
Maybe you banished it to Tumbolia?
Unsure how that should be verb'd, though.
shwitted
firewalled it
had a near-post experience.
passted (passed + posted).
nilposted.
Deposted - It just feels like it was meant to be a word.
distabbed it.
de-statused
er, what's wrong with the perfectly descriptive journalistic slang: "spike?"
As in: "I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I spiked it instead
"twattered" (as opposed to Twittered...)
Nommented.
Non-comment, no-comment, nom nom nom - it works on multiple levels.
decomposed
I think scuttled has a nice ring to it
Since the action is one of a completed form not being submitted, perhaps:
deformed?
I often go long-hand and say that I "prevented a premature e-joculation"
In true sniglet fashion, I like flosted (flow-sted, FLushed and pOSTED).
As for non-sniglet orientation, I like the non-word dissed, or, as already mentioned, the word flushed. They both roll off the tongue in a harsh way that connotes destruction. Plus they're well-known enough to impart the proper contextual clues for the uninitiated.
maybe twished
I like “effoured”. I’d change "kit-wubbed" to “kwubbed”.
I really like “I ated it”. ’Cos it sounds a bit like “I 8ed it”, bringing in 86.
Seems there should also be a word for the communication happening to alert you that the original communication was *unposted*(?).
Nothing comes to mind yet though.
no one else for "preleted"?
"deposted" then, i guess.
Boffle.
Boggle + waffle = boffle.
"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I boffled."
Boggle: to hesitate or shy away.
Waffle: to change one's mind.
"Pulled out" comes to mind.
I was thinking of "nah" as well, but I mashed it with comment to make:
"I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I nahmented it instead."
Sounds like Cliff Claven from Cheers.
(oops, it's like "nommented" above. I almost nahmented this post, but that seems too self-referential.)
I say "composted".
I like preleted!
I also like compost as it has "post" and the "com" for comment. total double entendre with that one.
I twashed it.
"dotdotdot"
Jason I was going to respond but dotdotdot
second spike
otherwise - hawk.
The issue is in discussing something that doesn't exist - the post or comment - and thus one discusses the act. Perhaps 'I wilted' does it.
oborbated
or
flooped
I liked this one, but what about...
twatted?
Compost is good, you'll probably recycle your idea at a later time anyway.
86'd is understandable and fewer key strokes.
I like fragged best because even though it was not posted the idea remains.......
yeah, desponded...that's the one!
not-twitty
shuttered
cloxed ?
er... I was going to comment but I shot the bird instead.
Guys, this isn't hard: nixed
eMTied
Like cwopped too - deplied? - similar to desponded. I guess there's two reasons you don't send...
1. Chickening out on the grounds the wording is too strong (cwopped)
2. Chickening out on the grounds the message isn't applicable any more (deplied)
Just trying to get more mileage out of the commaint :-)
I like preleted.
or: discomposed, stabbed, imploded, blinked, clabbed, deposted, vanished, etherized.
I like desponded, deplied, clabbed, preleted, and boffled.
I like "nulled", as in dev/null.
I think Boffled and Cwopped are the strongest so far
I like "desponded" too, but the first thing that came to my mind was "detweeted."
I like "ate" or "swallowed."
frab
"I really wanted someone to read my comment but at the last moment I choked and frabbed it."
I may have also noplied on some occasions
*Twitter makes me run my mouth!*
Gotta admit admit that "CWOPped out" is sweet.
But "I nommented ..." has a certain zing to it.
--bentrem
I like 'prelete' for brevity and 'recontwittered' for amusement.
The proper term is "bail" and I can't believe no one has suggested it yet. Of course that means you would have to "post bail" if you reconsidered a post. So maybe not...
"sent it on a postcard"
defenesTWITTED from defenestrate (throw out the window, albeit virtually) + TWITTER :)
I still like "hosed".
"Composted" is good too.
But there's nothing like that satisfying feeling of saying "I hosed that sucker!"
"thought better of"
If you are really looking for a practical solution, just say »I have cancelled the post«.
It is a very common term in computer applications, and it's applicable in this case. Creating a new word would raise much more questions than it would answer.
"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I fork'd it it instead."
I always seem to half write a reply/comment and then think "f* it, can't be arsed"
I made you a coinage, but I send it to the digital bit reservoir in the skies instead.
Seriously, I like 'committed commenticide', but I think that 'nahed' would work in an international context as well, and is more ambiguous as it doesn't refer to posts, comments, twitters, etc.
"... but I throsted it". Trash + Post
I would have answered at once…but I was on a hell of a toot and I seldom attend to anything but hoof her up when I am that way.
Buffalo Bill
in a letter to Jack Crawford
I found this, following a link from metafilter, right after reading your post, at http://www.bobolinkbooks.com/Iowa/home.html
recontwittered is my favorite
redacted, non?
Nix Nix Nixed it.
Downwrote.
This etymology is this: in Firefox, and possibly Opera, the gesture 'down and then right' closes the current tab. But downright was already taken as an adjective and downrighted sounded illiterate so, with 'write-down' and 'underwrite' in mind, it changed to...downwrote.
Best suggestions herein:
Nixed
86'd
Spiked
Hosed
A message board that I post on uses the term RTI "Returned to Index" because we have a nifty link at the top that returns us to the index page of the board.
Aborted
botar'd it.
The "fill in the blank" template requests a transitive verb, but I have a feeling that an intransitive one would be neater. E.g.: "Did you leave a comment by that inane post?" -- "Not quite, I nonplied."
Alternatives to nonply, in the spirit of brainstorming:
abscend
blobdicate
capostulate
comminquish
inact
rebounce
reny
sendurrer
I stop here -- I'm having more ideas, but they aren't getting any better. To nonply is still my favourite. Maybe it would be somewhat witty to make a new intransitive verb by taking one that, so far, only exists in a transitive form? Marco's suggestion, redact, would be a possibility here. "I was on the verge of calling bullshit, but redacted." This can also work exactly the other way around, e.g. Samuel's suggestion, "I shrugged it." Or: "I faltered it." Hmm, well, according to MW, "to falter sth." already exists and means, "to utter hesitatingly or brokenly" -- close enough!
And then of course we could also make up or adopt a noun. Commentus interruptus? Foreclosure? Bailiwick? The corresponding noun to that last one would of course be, "to bailiwicks", and someone who bailiwickses would be a bailiwickser.
I like "flog". although I'm not sure why. Sure it has another meaning, but that has never stopped the English language.
I third (or fourth.. or whatevered- I didn't read all the posts) "cwopped"
I cwop all the time.
Trashed is good, but perhaps the old dueling term, delope, might be useful. (It means to fire harmlessly having been missed by your opponent's shot).
skipped or muted
censored, withdrawn or retreated
these are certainly not new, but clear
How about, "wrote a reply but deadlettered it instead"?
I always liked the term dead letter drop, and it sounds just enough like "deleted" and "twittered."
Sorry, meant "dead letter office," where unread mail piles up and is destroyed. Dead letter drops are a spy thing, but just as interesting.
i'm with sulee, i was going to suggest 'abort'. (forget the connotations, it's time to take the verbage back! for the people!)
I'm with "deadlettered" up there, cuz that's what I came up with too. Did a search and saw I'd been beaten to the punch, so my vote's on that.
Sorry late to the party but I'd like to nominate "pretracted" if I could. I think "aborted" works well, but it seems as if the assumed resistance to widespread adoption would be kind of self-defeating, wouldn't it?
Postcarded
"flushed"
"I was going to reply to your post, but I recontwittered it."
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Bas42 18 2007 1:42PM
"Schwooped"