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?
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• Dec 18 2007 • 1:45PM
Sounds like you "backed out" to me. Not a new word, but we don't always need new words.
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:46PM
Perhaps "abandoned"?
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:46PM
"ex'ed"
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:47PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:47PM
The word that popped in my head was popped (as in balloon)
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:47PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:48PM
de-sponded?
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:48PM
Clabbed.
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:49PM
"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*
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:49PM
Untabbed?
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:51PM
recontwittered
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:51PM
I like de-sponded!
How bout "fragged" To kill one of your own.
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:52PM
Simple enough - "clabbed" as in "close-tabbed". Rhymes with crabbed.
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:53PM
screwed it.
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:53PM
pizza upskirt?
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:53PM
"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I shrat it instead."
shredded + shit = shrit
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:54PM
commit commenticide.
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:54PM
Postus interruptus?
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:54PM
"de-posted"?
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:55PM
"Effoured". As in Alt+F4, for Windows folks. Alternately, "Kit-wubbed" for Ctrl+W.
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:55PM
I've always used "exed." "Ah crap, I exed it."
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:55PM
i guess "defenestrated" only works on a PC. . .
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:55PM
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...
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:55PM
Clorked. click + bork
"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I clorked it instead."
• Dec 18 2007 • 1:57PM
I would have posted my new coinage, but then thought better of it. (Thank you, I'll be here all week.)
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:01PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:01PM
"cwop" (closed without posting). "I was going to comment but I cwopped out instead."
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:01PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:01PM
...but I bleeped it...
it's gone
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:02PM
Easy: Pop! As in: "I was gonna write you a comment, but i popped it. Understandable by nerds and gangster alike.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:02PM
Dry heaved.
I was going to say 'pizza upskirt' but somebody named scott beat me to it.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:02PM
I, like Derek above, have always said "I exed it." But I'm warming to "de-sponded"...
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:02PM
I like de-sponded as well, but my contribution is "cansed" (combo of cancel and closed).
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:03PM
It sounds like you "squibbed" it.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:03PM
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...
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:04PM
+ 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").
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:04PM
"disposted" ?
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:04PM
blue-balled it
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:05PM
Doesn't "scrapped" cover it?
Or maybe "snubbed", just because it sounds good.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:09PM
junked
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:10PM
"Checked"
as in a check-swing in baseball
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:11PM
shrugged.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:11PM
I always tell myself I'm tabling the motion/post/tweet.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:14PM
Desponded FTW.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:14PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:15PM
"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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:17PM
I defragulated it...
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:17PM
bottled it?
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:20PM
I nearly "mucked" this idea.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:22PM
mE-censored
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:24PM
I vote for "W'd." Pronounced, "Double-you'd." Referencing the key-command to close the window.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:25PM
Did you comment? I was going to, but decided to commain't instead.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:29PM
slog - slogged - slogging
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:31PM
"Pulled out"
As in...uh...you can figure it out.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:32PM
"Blerg", a la 30 Rock.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:32PM
"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").
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:35PM
I second "cwopped" - has vague connotation of "copped out" in my mind too.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:36PM
Punted
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:37PM
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".
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:39PM
How about a conflation of toss and post?
I'll leave the spelling up to you but I'd pronounce it "toast."
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:42PM
retracted it.
toasted it.
closeted it.
swatted it.
twatted it.
kicked it.
got over it.
threw up a little in my mouth.
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:42PM
punted
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:42PM
doinked
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:46PM
"resisted it". As in, did not submit (get it?) :-)
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:47PM
hahaha -- I was going to post a reply, but then i got over it...
• Dec 18 2007 • 2:54PM
I agree with "chickened out"
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:00PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:01PM
It might be Twitter-specific, but you could have "twix'd" it.
Twitter + nix'd = twix'd
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:02PM
... but I "nahed"
As in do I really want to post this? Nah.
Although I like cwoped it to.
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:04PM
Dinged it.
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:06PM
Dispost, Disposted.
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:10PM
If you closed out a page, you X-ed. Nothing needs to be made up, its already being used.
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:17PM
prelete
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:20PM
"I composed a Twitter post as I was sneaking into Disney World after hours, but thought better and flushed it."
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:24PM
retconned.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retcon)
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:25PM
Tabandoned?
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:26PM
Think of all the self-referential jokes that were about to be submitted
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:34PM
Maybe you banished it to Tumbolia?
Unsure how that should be verb'd, though.
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:35PM
shwitted
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:35PM
firewalled it
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:42PM
had a near-post experience.
passted (passed + posted).
nilposted.
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:42PM
Deposted - It just feels like it was meant to be a word.
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:43PM
distabbed it.
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:46PM
de-statused
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:49PM
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
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:50PM
"twattered" (as opposed to Twittered...)
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:50PM
Nommented.
Non-comment, no-comment, nom nom nom - it works on multiple levels.
• Dec 18 2007 • 3:56PM
decomposed
• Dec 18 2007 • 4:06PM
I think scuttled has a nice ring to it
• Dec 18 2007 • 4:16PM
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"
• Dec 18 2007 • 4:21PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 4:21PM
maybe twished
• Dec 18 2007 • 4:28PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 4:42PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 4:44PM
no one else for "preleted"?
"deposted" then, i guess.
• Dec 18 2007 • 4:46PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 4:49PM
"Pulled out" comes to mind.
• Dec 18 2007 • 4:56PM
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.)
• Dec 18 2007 • 5:06PM
I say "composted".
• Dec 18 2007 • 5:24PM
I like preleted!
I also like compost as it has "post" and the "com" for comment. total double entendre with that one.
• Dec 18 2007 • 5:35PM
I twashed it.
• Dec 18 2007 • 5:37PM
"dotdotdot"
Jason I was going to respond but dotdotdot
• Dec 18 2007 • 5:40PM
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.
• Dec 18 2007 • 6:06PM
oborbated
or
flooped
• Dec 18 2007 • 6:07PM
I liked this one, but what about...
twatted?
• Dec 18 2007 • 6:18PM
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.......
• Dec 18 2007 • 6:36PM
yeah, desponded...that's the one!
• Dec 18 2007 • 7:15PM
not-twitty
• Dec 18 2007 • 7:45PM
shuttered
• Dec 18 2007 • 7:55PM
cloxed ?
• Dec 18 2007 • 7:57PM
er... I was going to comment but I shot the bird instead.
• Dec 18 2007 • 8:14PM
Guys, this isn't hard: nixed
• Dec 18 2007 • 9:06PM
eMTied
• Dec 18 2007 • 10:01PM
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 :-)
• Dec 18 2007 • 10:34PM
I like preleted.
or: discomposed, stabbed, imploded, blinked, clabbed, deposted, vanished, etherized.
• Dec 18 2007 • 10:40PM
I like desponded, deplied, clabbed, preleted, and boffled.
• Dec 18 2007 • 10:41PM
I like "nulled", as in dev/null.
• Dec 18 2007 • 10:43PM
I think Boffled and Cwopped are the strongest so far
• Dec 18 2007 • 11:17PM
I like "desponded" too, but the first thing that came to my mind was "detweeted."
• Dec 18 2007 • 11:40PM
I like "ate" or "swallowed."
• Dec 18 2007 • 11:42PM
frab
"I really wanted someone to read my comment but at the last moment I choked and frabbed it."
• Dec 18 2007 • 11:55PM
I may have also noplied on some occasions
• Dec 19 2007 • 12:15AM
*Twitter makes me run my mouth!*
Gotta admit admit that "CWOPped out" is sweet.
But "I nommented ..." has a certain zing to it.
--bentrem
• Dec 19 2007 • 12:27AM
I like 'prelete' for brevity and 'recontwittered' for amusement.
• Dec 19 2007 • 12:56AM
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...
• Dec 19 2007 • 1:22AM
"sent it on a postcard"
• Dec 19 2007 • 1:41AM
defenesTWITTED from defenestrate (throw out the window, albeit virtually) + TWITTER :)
• Dec 19 2007 • 2:06AM
I still like "hosed".
"Composted" is good too.
But there's nothing like that satisfying feeling of saying "I hosed that sucker!"
• Dec 19 2007 • 3:19AM
"thought better of"
• Dec 19 2007 • 5:15AM
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.
• Dec 19 2007 • 5:24AM
"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"
• Dec 19 2007 • 5:50AM
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.
• Dec 19 2007 • 8:16AM
"... but I throsted it". Trash + Post
• Dec 19 2007 • 9:16AM
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
• Dec 19 2007 • 9:53AM
recontwittered is my favorite
redacted, non?
• Dec 19 2007 • 10:37AM
Nix Nix Nixed it.
• Dec 19 2007 • 10:46AM
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.
• Dec 19 2007 • 11:54AM
Best suggestions herein:
Nixed
86'd
Spiked
Hosed
• Dec 19 2007 • 12:17PM
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.
• Dec 19 2007 • 12:18PM
Aborted
• Dec 19 2007 • 12:19PM
botar'd it.
• Dec 19 2007 • 12:39PM
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.
• Dec 19 2007 • 2:33PM
I like "flog". although I'm not sure why. Sure it has another meaning, but that has never stopped the English language.
• Dec 19 2007 • 2:33PM
I third (or fourth.. or whatevered- I didn't read all the posts) "cwopped"
I cwop all the time.
• Dec 19 2007 • 7:57PM
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).
• Dec 20 2007 • 1:17AM
skipped or muted
censored, withdrawn or retreated
these are certainly not new, but clear
• Dec 20 2007 • 10:27AM
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."
• Dec 20 2007 • 10:35AM
Sorry, meant "dead letter office," where unread mail piles up and is destroyed. Dead letter drops are a spy thing, but just as interesting.
• Dec 20 2007 • 1:26PM
i'm with sulee, i was going to suggest 'abort'. (forget the connotations, it's time to take the verbage back! for the people!)
• Dec 20 2007 • 3:45PM
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.
• Dec 20 2007 • 11:05PM
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?
• Dec 23 2007 • 11:08AM
Postcarded
• Dec 25 2007 • 1:54PM
"flushed"
• Dec 26 2007 • 11:51AM
"I was going to reply to your post, but I recontwittered it."
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
Bas • Dec 18 2007 • 1:42PM
"Schwooped"