I generally try to respond after a decent number of comments have accumulated, so I have a better idea of the overall views of commenters. As the main poster, I generally try not to bias the discussion too much by pushing my own views in the comments.
The exception is where a comment requests a clarification as to my original meaning or points to an error in my post. In that case, I do try to respond quickly.
In some cases, I upvote specific comments but I don’t have a lot to say specifically in response so I don’t make reply comments. But LessWrong doesn’t show who upvoted particular posts or comments (unlike other places like Facebook or Quora, that I’m more used to), so I should probably also explicitly thank people publicly for their engagement.
Whether you want it or not it comes off as a bit arrogant never to respond to any comments but merely put up new posts. It gives the impression you don’t think any of the comments are worth responding to.
Hi Stefan,
I generally try to respond after a decent number of comments have accumulated, so I have a better idea of the overall views of commenters. As the main poster, I generally try not to bias the discussion too much by pushing my own views in the comments.
The exception is where a comment requests a clarification as to my original meaning or points to an error in my post. In that case, I do try to respond quickly.
In some cases, I upvote specific comments but I don’t have a lot to say specifically in response so I don’t make reply comments. But LessWrong doesn’t show who upvoted particular posts or comments (unlike other places like Facebook or Quora, that I’m more used to), so I should probably also explicitly thank people publicly for their engagement.
Whether you want it or not it comes off as a bit arrogant never to respond to any comments but merely put up new posts. It gives the impression you don’t think any of the comments are worth responding to.