My current best answer is by giving clear guidelines on what kind of comments the author wants. I found myself feeling bad about commenting on my enjoyment of the post (and nothing else) sometimes, because I didn’t know whether such comments were valuable for the author.
I will expand on it in my post at the end of November about how my comment challenge went.
Some authors have stated their preferences on this (generally such comments are marginally positive but stating one specific thing you liked is a big improvement).
Thanks for the link! I am actually thinking about something that appears in or after the commenting guidelines. So that when you comment, you have that information.
I wonder what could be done to make commenting more rewarding for people.
My current best answer is by giving clear guidelines on what kind of comments the author wants. I found myself feeling bad about commenting on my enjoyment of the post (and nothing else) sometimes, because I didn’t know whether such comments were valuable for the author.
I will expand on it in my post at the end of November about how my comment challenge went.
Some authors have stated their preferences on this (generally such comments are marginally positive but stating one specific thing you liked is a big improvement).
Thanks for the link! I am actually thinking about something that appears in or after the commenting guidelines. So that when you comment, you have that information.