…and do you think that you posting it has a positive, neutral or negative effect on the world?
By content I mean what ever you’re posting online. The pictures you post on Instagram/Pixelfed or messages you’re writing on Lemmy, YouTube comment section, Facebook and so on.
If you look back at what you have posted in the past year for example, do you consider it to be the kind of content that you would gladly consume if it was coming from someone else? If not, then why are you posting it in the first place?
Nope, those mean different things!
Means (or implies)…
“I didn’t like it, so I won’t post it”, but it’s phrased as a conditional statement.
It also means that it’s hypothetical – nothing was posted!
But…
Means (or implies)…
“I like it, so I posted it”, again phrased as a conditional statement.
It also means that the thing actually happened (because the commenter liked it).
So they have similar, but different meanings. The key difference is whether the commenter is saying they have already posted something or not. One is hypothetical, and the other is more of a reflection of something that did happen.
Also, I think this part of your comment is incorrect.
This should be…
(This is what people say probably 99% of the time)
Or
(This is less common and more formal)
And yes, I know that it looks like the “not” should be directly after the “should” because of “shouldn’t”, but it doesn’t happen that way. I think this happens when forming a question with conditional verbs (should/would/could), but I have no idea why.
As I’m sure you know, English is crazy. Sorry about that. Hope this helps!
Thank you very much for the in depth explanation.