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Anyone in a coining mood? If one

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?

By Jason Kottke    Dec 18, 2007 at 01:39 pm    language   weblogs

There are 155 reader comments

Bas    Dec 18 2007    1:42PM

"Schwooped"

Ryan    Dec 18 2007    1:45PM

Sounds like you "backed out" to me. Not a new word, but we don't always need new words.

Steve Ivy    Dec 18 2007    1:46PM

Perhaps "abandoned"?

dennis    Dec 18 2007    1:46PM

"ex'ed"

Michael Plante    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.

Bill    Dec 18 2007    1:47PM

The word that popped in my head was popped (as in balloon)

Michael Plante    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.

Jason Coleman    Dec 18 2007    1:48PM

de-sponded?

Joel    Dec 18 2007    1:48PM

Clabbed.

Samuel    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*

Leo Kennis    Dec 18 2007    1:49PM

Untabbed?

Ted    Dec 18 2007    1:51PM

recontwittered

john weeks    Dec 18 2007    1:51PM

I like de-sponded!

How bout "fragged" To kill one of your own.

William Safire    Dec 18 2007    1:52PM

Simple enough - "clabbed" as in "close-tabbed". Rhymes with crabbed.

kavi    Dec 18 2007    1:53PM

screwed it.

scott    Dec 18 2007    1:53PM

pizza upskirt?

Doug    Dec 18 2007    1:53PM

"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I shrat it instead."

shredded + shit = shrit

john weeks    Dec 18 2007    1:54PM

commit commenticide.

Scott    Dec 18 2007    1:54PM

Postus interruptus?

Hrag    Dec 18 2007    1:54PM

"de-posted"?

Eamon    Dec 18 2007    1:55PM

"Effoured". As in Alt+F4, for Windows folks. Alternately, "Kit-wubbed" for Ctrl+W.

Derek    Dec 18 2007    1:55PM

I've always used "exed." "Ah crap, I exed it."

ben    Dec 18 2007    1:55PM

i guess "defenestrated" only works on a PC. . .

Justin Watt    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...

Erik    Dec 18 2007    1:55PM

Clorked. click + bork

"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I clorked it instead."

Michael Sippey    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.)

Percy    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.

Ken    Dec 18 2007    2:01PM

"cwop" (closed without posting). "I was going to comment but I cwopped out instead."

Jennifer    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.

ann    Dec 18 2007    2:01PM

...but I bleeped it...

it's gone

Marcus Frödin    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.

Adam Lisagor    Dec 18 2007    2:02PM

Dry heaved.

I was going to say 'pizza upskirt' but somebody named scott beat me to it.

zan    Dec 18 2007    2:02PM

I, like Derek above, have always said "I exed it." But I'm warming to "de-sponded"...

Karl    Dec 18 2007    2:02PM

I like de-sponded as well, but my contribution is "cansed" (combo of cancel and closed).

John Harrington    Dec 18 2007    2:03PM

It sounds like you "squibbed" it.

Dean    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...

Lance Willett    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").

Eric Goebelbecker    Dec 18 2007    2:04PM

"disposted" ?

Joe    Dec 18 2007    2:04PM

blue-balled it





pthimon    Dec 18 2007    2:05PM

Doesn't "scrapped" cover it?

Or maybe "snubbed", just because it sounds good.

gunnar    Dec 18 2007    2:09PM

junked

michael    Dec 18 2007    2:10PM

"Checked"

as in a check-swing in baseball

Ryan    Dec 18 2007    2:11PM

shrugged.

ScottX    Dec 18 2007    2:11PM

I always tell myself I'm tabling the motion/post/tweet.

scragz    Dec 18 2007    2:14PM

Desponded FTW.

Stefan Hayden    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.

Boaz    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.

Pete    Dec 18 2007    2:17PM

I defragulated it...

Tom Allender    Dec 18 2007    2:17PM

bottled it?

Chris    Dec 18 2007    2:20PM

I nearly "mucked" this idea.

ryan    Dec 18 2007    2:22PM

mE-censored

Lex Friedman    Dec 18 2007    2:24PM

I vote for "W'd." Pronounced, "Double-you'd." Referencing the key-command to close the window.

gwint    Dec 18 2007    2:25PM

Did you comment? I was going to, but decided to commain't instead.

brock    Dec 18 2007    2:29PM

slog - slogged - slogging

Josh    Dec 18 2007    2:31PM

"Pulled out"

As in...uh...you can figure it out.

Russ    Dec 18 2007    2:32PM

"Blerg", a la 30 Rock.

aliotsy    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").

reviewstew    Dec 18 2007    2:35PM

I second "cwopped" - has vague connotation of "copped out" in my mind too.

Cade Roux    Dec 18 2007    2:36PM

Punted

Russ    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".

Josh    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."

philco    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.

lapalam    Dec 18 2007    2:42PM

punted

paulski.mcb    Dec 18 2007    2:42PM

doinked

Mike    Dec 18 2007    2:46PM

"resisted it". As in, did not submit (get it?) :-)

Hillary    Dec 18 2007    2:47PM

hahaha -- I was going to post a reply, but then i got over it...

dan    Dec 18 2007    2:54PM

I agree with "chickened out"

Camilo    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.

travis    Dec 18 2007    3:01PM

It might be Twitter-specific, but you could have "twix'd" it.

Twitter + nix'd = twix'd

Guy    Dec 18 2007    3:02PM

... but I "nahed"

As in do I really want to post this? Nah.

Although I like cwoped it to.

TMQ    Dec 18 2007    3:04PM

Dinged it.

B. Robert    Dec 18 2007    3:06PM


Dispost, Disposted.

April    Dec 18 2007    3:10PM

If you closed out a page, you X-ed. Nothing needs to be made up, its already being used.

Earl    Dec 18 2007    3:17PM

prelete

Lenny    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."

PJ    Dec 18 2007    3:24PM

retconned.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retcon)

Niall    Dec 18 2007    3:25PM

Tabandoned?

Dustin    Dec 18 2007    3:26PM

Think of all the self-referential jokes that were about to be submitted

Greg    Dec 18 2007    3:34PM

Maybe you banished it to Tumbolia?

Unsure how that should be verb'd, though.

spizz    Dec 18 2007    3:35PM

shwitted

ac    Dec 18 2007    3:35PM

firewalled it

Mark Jaquith    Dec 18 2007    3:42PM

had a near-post experience.
passted (passed + posted).
nilposted.

TarikB    Dec 18 2007    3:42PM

Deposted - It just feels like it was meant to be a word.

tes    Dec 18 2007    3:43PM

distabbed it.

jonathan segal    Dec 18 2007    3:46PM

de-statused

William Dunn    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

fourstar    Dec 18 2007    3:50PM

"twattered" (as opposed to Twittered...)

Dan Dickinson    Dec 18 2007    3:50PM

Nommented.

Non-comment, no-comment, nom nom nom - it works on multiple levels.

HvI    Dec 18 2007    3:56PM

decomposed

David Allen    Dec 18 2007    4:06PM

I think scuttled has a nice ring to it

Sterling Camden    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"

Jeremy    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.

spizz    Dec 18 2007    4:21PM

maybe twished

pauldwaite    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.

Matt Williams    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.

progosk    Dec 18 2007    4:44PM

no one else for "preleted"?
"deposted" then, i guess.

Tim    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.

Ron K Jeffries    Dec 18 2007    4:49PM

"Pulled out" comes to mind.

DH.    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.)

TheBrad    Dec 18 2007    5:06PM

I say "composted".

laura    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.

Chris    Dec 18 2007    5:35PM

I twashed it.

pb    Dec 18 2007    5:37PM

"dotdotdot"

Jason I was going to respond but dotdotdot

Antonia Clevedon    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.

IQpierce    Dec 18 2007    6:06PM

oborbated
or
flooped

Fan of Biber    Dec 18 2007    6:07PM

I liked this one, but what about...

twatted?

Nancy    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.......

spiderpez    Dec 18 2007    6:36PM

yeah, desponded...that's the one!

Eric Grondorf    Dec 18 2007    7:15PM

not-twitty

bingibergs    Dec 18 2007    7:45PM

shuttered

Sohaib Athar    Dec 18 2007    7:55PM

cloxed ?

John Lampard    Dec 18 2007    7:57PM

er... I was going to comment but I shot the bird instead.

iain    Dec 18 2007    8:14PM

Guys, this isn't hard: nixed

dg    Dec 18 2007    9:06PM

eMTied

Matt    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 :-)

josh    Dec 18 2007    10:34PM

I like preleted.

or: discomposed, stabbed, imploded, blinked, clabbed, deposted, vanished, etherized.

zoe    Dec 18 2007    10:40PM

I like desponded, deplied, clabbed, preleted, and boffled.

Phil Oye    Dec 18 2007    10:41PM

I like "nulled", as in dev/null.

luminux    Dec 18 2007    10:43PM

I think Boffled and Cwopped are the strongest so far

Adam Rice    Dec 18 2007    11:17PM

I like "desponded" too, but the first thing that came to my mind was "detweeted."

Dan Bruno    Dec 18 2007    11:40PM

I like "ate" or "swallowed."

Ben Tremblay    Dec 18 2007    11:42PM

frab

"I really wanted someone to read my comment but at the last moment I choked and frabbed it."

Matt    Dec 18 2007    11:55PM

I may have also noplied on some occasions

Ben Tremblay    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

Erin Pettigrew    Dec 19 2007    12:27AM

I like 'prelete' for brevity and 'recontwittered' for amusement.

Jeff Koke    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...

Edward Vielmetti    Dec 19 2007    1:22AM

"sent it on a postcard"

The Pageman    Dec 19 2007    1:41AM

defenesTWITTED from defenestrate (throw out the window, albeit virtually) + TWITTER :)

yogi-one    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!"

richard    Dec 19 2007    3:19AM

"thought better of"

Timo Stamm    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.

Dave    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"


WilliamG    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.

Pål Bråtelund    Dec 19 2007    8:16AM

"... but I throsted it". Trash + Post

Sarah Sunshine    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

Marco    Dec 19 2007    9:53AM

recontwittered is my favorite
redacted, non?

N    Dec 19 2007    10:37AM

Nix Nix Nixed it.

Alex    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.

Sulee    Dec 19 2007    11:54AM

Best suggestions herein:

Nixed
86'd
Spiked
Hosed

Karen    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.

Sulee    Dec 19 2007    12:18PM

Aborted

jcburns    Dec 19 2007    12:19PM

botar'd it.

nex    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.

Jared Olilphint    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.

Jenguin    Dec 19 2007    2:33PM

I third (or fourth.. or whatevered- I didn't read all the posts) "cwopped"
I cwop all the time.

Kaleberg    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).

Officer    Dec 20 2007    1:17AM

skipped or muted

censored, withdrawn or retreated

these are certainly not new, but clear

tim shey    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."

tim shey    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.

janelle    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!)

i, squub    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.

squirrelian    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?

Philip (flip) Kromer    Dec 23 2007    11:08AM

Postcarded

kevin    Dec 25 2007    1:54PM

"flushed"

Jough Dempsey    Dec 26 2007    11:51AM

"I was going to reply to your post, but I recontwittered it."

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