Mostly my posts get not much engagement, and the engagement they do get feels a whole lot to me like people attempting to use my post as an opportunity to score points in one way or another, often by (apparently) trying to demonstrate that they’re ahead of me in some way while also accidentally demonstrating that have probably not even tried to hear me.
Strong agree. Though I also engage in the commenting behavior, at an uncharitable view of my behavior.
One can dream of some genius cracking the filtering problem and creating a criss-crossing tesseract of subcultures that can occupy the same space (e.g. LW) but go off in their own shared-goals directions (those people who jam and analyze with each other; those people who carefully nitpick and verify; those people who gather facts; those people who just vibe; …).
Strong agree. Though I also engage in the commenting behavior, at an uncharitable view of my behavior.
One can dream of some genius cracking the filtering problem and creating a criss-crossing tesseract of subcultures that can occupy the same space (e.g. LW) but go off in their own shared-goals directions (those people who jam and analyze with each other; those people who carefully nitpick and verify; those people who gather facts; those people who just vibe; …).