Selective Text Responding 

When one of the participants in a texting conversation intentionally ignores certain questions or texts because of their lack of desire to answer the question or get involved in a conversation.

"Stop selective text responding and answer my question -- do you want to go with me to my friend Marisa's surprise mini golf birthday party?"

Selective Text Responding by tomalexander19 August 25, 2013

not responding 

A program that decides to not work for a period of time, due to it being busy or it is processing something, and sometimes no reason at all. Also, some programs can do this for forever and literally piss you off instantly and wanting to force quit the program in Task manager or in severe cases, throw your computer out the window.

Mozilla Firefox (Not Responding)
Me: Goddammit, not again... I'll wait...
(5 hours later)
Mozilla Firefox (Not Responding)
(Throws computer out)

not responding by aaaaaiiiiiiieeeee August 16, 2012

Superficial Responding 

When someone says something to you, you ask them to repeat it and still don't have a clue about, so rather than asking them to repeat again, you stimulate a variety of different responses such as;
Nodding your Head
Smiling and Looking at The person
Looking Down
Agreeing
Looking Concerned

This method of reply is often useful when speaking to people with strong accents, or old people.

Dan: Wow thats a nice watch, how much was that?
Ted: What?
Dan: How much was your watch
Ted: Yes *Smiles* (Superficial Responding)

Superficial Responding by R4inman June 3, 2007

not responding 

This thing is happening when you have pentium 1 and open google chrom.

Your brain.exe (not responding)

not responding by hehehheheheheheeheheheh March 11, 2017

cafeteria responding 

When your man only reads your texts but, doesn't answer. He picks what texts he wants to answer. Like when you are at a cafeteria picking what you'd like to eat. You choose what you want to eat.

Ugh.... Chris is the king of cafeteria responding.

My boyfriend is cafeteria responding me but, answered his best friend.

cafeteria responding by BFoverated February 21, 2017

Task manager: (not responding) 

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THEM

NOT JOIN THEM

me: close that
Task manager: (not responding)
me: *opens task manager manager*

Task manager: (not responding) by dry water 69 September 25, 2022

Selective Responding

A variant of selective response, emphasizing the ongoing, interactive nature of the manipulation. In selective responding, the digitallighter repeatedly picks one element from each of the target’s messages—ignoring the rest—and responds only to that element, often twisting its meaning. Over multiple exchanges, the target’s original argument becomes fragmented and lost, while the digitallighter controls the flow. The target feels unheard and gaslit, unsure whether their own points were ever communicated.

Example: “Every time she tried to explain systemic factors, he’d grab a single word and argue about that instead—selective responding, turning dialogue into a hall of mirrors.”

Selective Responding by Abzugal April 5, 2026