[barkingcat]

that means a person can DOS you by typing and erasing text but never sending you a message?

[das_keyboard]

Just typing something and then not sending a message puts me out of order for about 5 minutes while I'm waiting if there is a message coming. And then another 10 minutes while I'm speculating what he could have wanted from me.

[samtimalsina]

People do that?

[andkenneth]

There's that one guy who built a bot that automatically sends the typing signal back whenever it detects someone typing. Very funny prank.

[layer8]

Happens often enough that people start responding but then realize they don’t actually have anything useful to say right now (“never mind”).