Anyone in a coining mood?
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?
Reader comments
BasDec 18, 2007 at 1:42PM
"Schwooped"
RyanDec 18, 2007 at 1:45PM
Sounds like you "backed out" to me. Not a new word, but we don't always need new words.
Steve IvyDec 18, 2007 at 1:46PM
Perhaps "abandoned"?
dennisDec 18, 2007 at 1:46PM
"ex'ed"
Michael PlanteDec 18, 2007 at 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.
BillDec 18, 2007 at 1:47PM
The word that popped in my head was popped (as in balloon)
Michael PlanteDec 18, 2007 at 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 ColemanDec 18, 2007 at 1:48PM
de-sponded?
JoelDec 18, 2007 at 1:48PM
Clabbed.
SamuelDec 18, 2007 at 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 KennisDec 18, 2007 at 1:49PM
Untabbed?
TedDec 18, 2007 at 1:51PM
recontwittered
john weeksDec 18, 2007 at 1:51PM
I like de-sponded!
How bout "fragged" To kill one of your own.
William SafireDec 18, 2007 at 1:52PM
Simple enough - "clabbed" as in "close-tabbed". Rhymes with crabbed.
kaviDec 18, 2007 at 1:53PM
screwed it.
scottDec 18, 2007 at 1:53PM
pizza upskirt?
DougDec 18, 2007 at 1:53PM
"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I shrat it instead."
shredded + shit = shrit
ScottDec 18, 2007 at 1:54PM
Postus interruptus?
john weeksDec 18, 2007 at 1:54PM
commit commenticide.
HragDec 18, 2007 at 1:54PM
"de-posted"?
EamonDec 18, 2007 at 1:55PM
"Effoured". As in Alt+F4, for Windows folks. Alternately, "Kit-wubbed" for Ctrl+W.
DerekDec 18, 2007 at 1:55PM
I've always used "exed." "Ah crap, I exed it."
benDec 18, 2007 at 1:55PM
i guess "defenestrated" only works on a PC. . .
Justin WattDec 18, 2007 at 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...
ErikDec 18, 2007 at 1:55PM
Clorked. click + bork
"Jason, I would have responded to this post in the comments, but I clorked it instead."
Michael SippeyDec 18, 2007 at 1:57PM
I would have posted my new coinage, but then thought better of it. (Thank you, I'll be here all week.)
PercyDec 18, 2007 at 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.
KenDec 18, 2007 at 2:01PM
"cwop" (closed without posting). "I was going to comment but I cwopped out instead."
JenniferDec 18, 2007 at 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.
annDec 18, 2007 at 2:01PM
...but I bleeped it...
it's gone
Marcus FrödinDec 18, 2007 at 2:02PM
Easy: Pop! As in: "I was gonna write you a comment, but i popped it. Understandable by nerds and gangster alike.
Adam LisagorDec 18, 2007 at 2:02PM
Dry heaved.
I was going to say 'pizza upskirt' but somebody named scott beat me to it.
KarlDec 18, 2007 at 2:02PM
I like de-sponded as well, but my contribution is "cansed" (combo of cancel and closed).
zanDec 18, 2007 at 2:02PM
I, like Derek above, have always said "I exed it." But I'm warming to "de-sponded"...
John HarringtonDec 18, 2007 at 2:03PM
It sounds like you "squibbed" it.
DeanDec 18, 2007 at 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 WillettDec 18, 2007 at 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 GoebelbeckerDec 18, 2007 at 2:04PM
"disposted" ?
JoeDec 18, 2007 at 2:04PM
blue-balled it
pthimonDec 18, 2007 at 2:05PM
Doesn't "scrapped" cover it?
Or maybe "snubbed", just because it sounds good.
gunnarDec 18, 2007 at 2:09PM
junked
michaelDec 18, 2007 at 2:10PM
"Checked"
as in a check-swing in baseball
RyanDec 18, 2007 at 2:11PM
shrugged.
ScottXDec 18, 2007 at 2:11PM
I always tell myself I'm tabling the motion/post/tweet.
scragzDec 18, 2007 at 2:14PM
Desponded FTW.
Stefan HaydenDec 18, 2007 at 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.
BoazDec 18, 2007 at 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.
PeteDec 18, 2007 at 2:17PM
I defragulated it...
Tom AllenderDec 18, 2007 at 2:17PM
bottled it?
ChrisDec 18, 2007 at 2:20PM
I nearly "mucked" this idea.
ryanDec 18, 2007 at 2:22PM
mE-censored
Lex FriedmanDec 18, 2007 at 2:24PM
I vote for "W'd." Pronounced, "Double-you'd." Referencing the key-command to close the window.
gwintDec 18, 2007 at 2:25PM
Did you comment? I was going to, but decided to commain't instead.
brockDec 18, 2007 at 2:29PM
slog - slogged - slogging
JoshDec 18, 2007 at 2:31PM
"Pulled out"
As in...uh...you can figure it out.
RussDec 18, 2007 at 2:32PM
"Blerg", a la 30 Rock.
aliotsyDec 18, 2007 at 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").
reviewstewDec 18, 2007 at 2:35PM
I second "cwopped" - has vague connotation of "copped out" in my mind too.
Cade RouxDec 18, 2007 at 2:36PM
Punted
RussDec 18, 2007 at 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".
JoshDec 18, 2007 at 2:39PM
How about a conflation of toss and post?
I'll leave the spelling up to you but I'd pronounce it "toast."
philcoDec 18, 2007 at 2:42PM
retracted it.
toasted it.
closeted it.
swatted it.
twatted it.
kicked it.
got over it.
threw up a little in my mouth.
lapalamDec 18, 2007 at 2:42PM
punted
paulski.mcbDec 18, 2007 at 2:42PM
doinked
MikeDec 18, 2007 at 2:46PM
"resisted it". As in, did not submit (get it?) :-)
HillaryDec 18, 2007 at 2:47PM
hahaha -- I was going to post a reply, but then i got over it...
danDec 18, 2007 at 2:54PM
I agree with "chickened out"
CamiloDec 18, 2007 at 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.
travisDec 18, 2007 at 3:01PM
It might be Twitter-specific, but you could have "twix'd" it.
Twitter + nix'd = twix'd
GuyDec 18, 2007 at 3:02PM
... but I "nahed"
As in do I really want to post this? Nah.
Although I like cwoped it to.
TMQDec 18, 2007 at 3:04PM
Dinged it.
B. RobertDec 18, 2007 at 3:06PM
Dispost, Disposted.
AprilDec 18, 2007 at 3:10PM
If you closed out a page, you X-ed. Nothing needs to be made up, its already being used.
EarlDec 18, 2007 at 3:17PM
prelete
LennyDec 18, 2007 at 3:20PM
"I composed a Twitter post as I was sneaking into Disney World after hours, but thought better and flushed it."
PJDec 18, 2007 at 3:24PM
retconned.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retcon)
NiallDec 18, 2007 at 3:25PM
Tabandoned?
DustinDec 18, 2007 at 3:26PM
Think of all the self-referential jokes that were about to be submitted
GregDec 18, 2007 at 3:34PM
Maybe you banished it to Tumbolia?
Unsure how that should be verb'd, though.
spizzDec 18, 2007 at 3:35PM
shwitted
acDec 18, 2007 at 3:35PM
firewalled it
Mark JaquithDec 18, 2007 at 3:42PM
had a near-post experience.
passted (passed + posted).
nilposted.
TarikBDec 18, 2007 at 3:42PM
Deposted - It just feels like it was meant to be a word.
tesDec 18, 2007 at 3:43PM
distabbed it.
jonathan segalDec 18, 2007 at 3:46PM
de-statused
William DunnDec 18, 2007 at 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
fourstarDec 18, 2007 at 3:50PM
"twattered" (as opposed to Twittered...)
Dan DickinsonDec 18, 2007 at 3:50PM
Nommented.
Non-comment, no-comment, nom nom nom - it works on multiple levels.
HvIDec 18, 2007 at 3:56PM
decomposed
David AllenDec 18, 2007 at 4:06PM
I think scuttled has a nice ring to it
Sterling CamdenDec 18, 2007 at 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"
JeremyDec 18, 2007 at 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.
spizzDec 18, 2007 at 4:21PM
maybe twished
pauldwaiteDec 18, 2007 at 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 WilliamsDec 18, 2007 at 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.
progoskDec 18, 2007 at 4:44PM
no one else for "preleted"?
"deposted" then, i guess.
TimDec 18, 2007 at 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 JeffriesDec 18, 2007 at 4:49PM
"Pulled out" comes to mind.
DH.Dec 18, 2007 at 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.)
TheBradDec 18, 2007 at 5:06PM
I say "composted".
lauraDec 18, 2007 at 5:24PM
I like preleted!
I also like compost as it has "post" and the "com" for comment. total double entendre with that one.
ChrisDec 18, 2007 at 5:35PM
I twashed it.
pbDec 18, 2007 at 5:37PM
"dotdotdot"
Jason I was going to respond but dotdotdot
Antonia ClevedonDec 18, 2007 at 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.
IQpierceDec 18, 2007 at 6:06PM
oborbated
or
flooped
Fan of BiberDec 18, 2007 at 6:07PM
I liked this one, but what about...
twatted?
NancyDec 18, 2007 at 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.......
spiderpezDec 18, 2007 at 6:36PM
yeah, desponded...that's the one!
Eric GrondorfDec 18, 2007 at 7:15PM
not-twitty
bingibergsDec 18, 2007 at 7:45PM
shuttered
Sohaib AtharDec 18, 2007 at 7:55PM
cloxed ?
John LampardDec 18, 2007 at 7:57PM
er... I was going to comment but I shot the bird instead.
iainDec 18, 2007 at 8:14PM
Guys, this isn't hard: nixed
dgDec 18, 2007 at 9:06PM
eMTied
MattDec 18, 2007 at 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 :-)
joshDec 18, 2007 at 10:34PM
I like preleted.
or: discomposed, stabbed, imploded, blinked, clabbed, deposted, vanished, etherized.
zoeDec 18, 2007 at 10:40PM
I like desponded, deplied, clabbed, preleted, and boffled.
Phil OyeDec 18, 2007 at 10:41PM
I like "nulled", as in dev/null.
luminuxDec 18, 2007 at 10:43PM
I think Boffled and Cwopped are the strongest so far
Adam RiceDec 18, 2007 at 11:17PM
I like "desponded" too, but the first thing that came to my mind was "detweeted."
Dan BrunoDec 18, 2007 at 11:40PM
I like "ate" or "swallowed."
Ben TremblayDec 18, 2007 at 11:42PM
frab
"I really wanted someone to read my comment but at the last moment I choked and frabbed it."
MattDec 18, 2007 at 11:55PM
I may have also noplied on some occasions
Ben TremblayDec 19, 2007 at 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 PettigrewDec 19, 2007 at 12:27AM
I like 'prelete' for brevity and 'recontwittered' for amusement.
Jeff KokeDec 19, 2007 at 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 VielmettiDec 19, 2007 at 1:22AM
"sent it on a postcard"
The PagemanDec 19, 2007 at 1:41AM
defenesTWITTED from defenestrate (throw out the window, albeit virtually) + TWITTER :)
yogi-oneDec 19, 2007 at 2:06AM
I still like "hosed".
"Composted" is good too.
But there's nothing like that satisfying feeling of saying "I hosed that sucker!"
richardDec 19, 2007 at 3:19AM
"thought better of"
Timo StammDec 19, 2007 at 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.
DaveDec 19, 2007 at 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"
WilliamGDec 19, 2007 at 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 BråtelundDec 19, 2007 at 8:16AM
"... but I throsted it". Trash + Post
Sarah SunshineDec 19, 2007 at 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
MarcoDec 19, 2007 at 9:53AM
recontwittered is my favorite
redacted, non?
NDec 19, 2007 at 10:37AM
Nix Nix Nixed it.
AlexDec 19, 2007 at 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.
SuleeDec 19, 2007 at 11:54AM
Best suggestions herein:
Nixed
86'd
Spiked
Hosed
KarenDec 19, 2007 at 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.
SuleeDec 19, 2007 at 12:18PM
Aborted
jcburnsDec 19, 2007 at 12:19PM
botar'd it.
nexDec 19, 2007 at 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 OlilphintDec 19, 2007 at 2:33PM
I like "flog". although I'm not sure why. Sure it has another meaning, but that has never stopped the English language.
JenguinDec 19, 2007 at 2:33PM
I third (or fourth.. or whatevered- I didn't read all the posts) "cwopped"
I cwop all the time.
KalebergDec 19, 2007 at 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).
OfficerDec 20, 2007 at 1:17AM
skipped or muted
censored, withdrawn or retreated
these are certainly not new, but clear
tim sheyDec 20, 2007 at 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 sheyDec 20, 2007 at 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.
janelleDec 20, 2007 at 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, squubDec 20, 2007 at 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.
squirrelianDec 20, 2007 at 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) KromerDec 23, 2007 at 11:08AM
Postcarded
kevinDec 25, 2007 at 1:54PM
"flushed"
Jough DempseyDec 26, 2007 at 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.