I do appreciate the little comments but for me there’s a huge benefit for even a sentence of why they liked it.
For instance this comment definitely had a much larger positive effect on me than a strong upvote:
I really appreciate seeing this kind of applied statistical analysis to a stray interesting-sounding fact you heard.
I doubt this took much longer to write than “Good post!” but the extra time was definitely worth it to me.
I do appreciate the little comments but for me there’s a huge benefit for even a sentence of why they liked it.
For instance this comment definitely had a much larger positive effect on me than a strong upvote:
I doubt this took much longer to write than “Good post!” but the extra time was definitely worth it to me.