I’ve got the start of the “monk’s spot” as I call it. So it’s a number 1 clippers for me. I won’t do the shaved head, but I’ll go shorn.
I’d certainly appreciate it if you did! I’m starting to go bald, and while I’m not overly fussed about it, it would be interesting to know what other peoples’ experiences are as I ponder the options.
It’s not a hypothetical for me, as I’ve been bald for decades now.
I keep my little remaining hair clipped short, and have grown to embrace the situation. It’s easy to maintain, and I actually think I look better than I would with hair. It was always stringy and greasy anyway.
Nothing other than to buy a hat.
Get the barber to buzz it with a trimmer with a #3 guard. At least that’s what I’ve been doing since I went bald something like 15 years ago.
I’m not sure what I’d do if I was suddenly able to get it back. It really is a convienant, no-maintenance situation.
Shave my head of course. A shaved head isn’t the best style on some men, but it’s far preferable to a comb-over, or the dreaded ring around the bottom look. If you’ve got a badly shaped head for shaving, then shave it and find a stylish hat to wear or something.
I said let nature take its course, but that’s probably not entirely true. I’m 50, but if I were 21 and just starting to notice my hair thinning, I might try some options to slow down nature. Maybe. I’ve heard that Propecia works pretty well, but there are some very undesirable side effects that my 21 year old self might find worse than the problem. Now if there were a true “cure” without any side effects, and it was reasonably affordable, I might have availed myself of that.
The Ask thread would be interesting to me.
It’s happening. Doing nothing. If my hairline recedes much further it’s all coming off.
I know a person who must have had hair restoration surgery some time in the past after which the bald spot has grown bigger and bigger with the result that he now has a tuft of hair on top of his head with a bald zone down to what’s left and there are very obvious markings where the tufts of hair were once grafted. It looks horrible.
Another vote for past tense.
Began in a patchy not usual male pattern way. I never was at all concerned about going bald, was just concerned about looking goofy going bald with some idiotic attempt to hide the fact. My wife wanted me to use Rogaine or Propecia… blech. At first went to a local Black barbershop where the first time in I got a strange reaction being a White customer … but figured my formerly curly hair patchy bald was more like a middle aged Black man’s balding pate than anyone else’s. It was kinda cute how the barber was initially obviously anxious about cutting White hair, obviously thinking he wouldn’t know what to do with it, and him then quickly realizing that he could do exactly the same thing with it as he could with a patchy balding Black man’s head and visibly relaxing. Great haircuts and fun conversations but after a few years it was patchy enough that the pretense of needing a haircut was foolish to maintain. Buzzing to near shaved length ever since. (Tried shaving it but it was too much effort to keep up with.)
That said my wife has not let me forget that she fell in love with my now absent curls.
Your request has been granted. 
My thread is here. Ask away.
Ticked rogaine etc and do nothing.
IOW, it might be worth fighting it for a while while hair is thinning out on the crown. But after a point, I’m done. I certainly wouldn’t go as far as transplants.
I shave it. In defiance of fashion, I’ve worn my hair buzzed or shaved most of my adult life. I’ve never been comfortable with long hair, so there was no real transition in appearance for me.
Keep it shorn tight and wear a hat. Not for the warmth, but for the prevention of sunburn.
Other. I have a full head of hair. It isn’t even thinning. It is, however, totally grey. So I shave my head. Been doing this for over a decade.
It’s possible I’m going bald. In my early and mid twenties I had a truly impressive mane, but when I started working in retail banking around 29 or so I started shaving my head out of laziness. (It was easier to keep it all gone than to fuss with keeping a thick mane neat.) On those times I’ve let it grow out, it no longer gets nearly as thick or shaggy as it used to.
It hardly matters, though, since I generally keep my head shorn anyway.
Didn’t do anything about it. I shave when my hair gets too thick. It was sort of a boon to me because when my hair gets too thick I get headaches, and the baldness cut down on this a bit. Although it would look better if I shaved at least every week.
I am young but I am unsure what I’d do if going bald. Maybe try the options to prevent it but accept it if they didn’t work.
I voted “other” since, like others, when my hair started to thin I started to buzz it. I’m down to a 1/16" guide now, do it about every week to keep things neat.
No surgery, pills, combover, etc. for me, thanks. I happen to look good this way so I stick with it.