However, on a post of mine, my own comments clearly don’t count. And on another person’s post, if there’s a lot of comments but most of them are the original authors, it feels like some kind of red flag. Like they think their post is more important than other people do. (I’m not sure if I endorse this perception).
There is definitely value to this heuristic, but note that, e.g., I have commented on my own posts with nitpicky counterpoints to my own claims, or elaborations/digressions that are related but don’t really fit into the structure/flow of the post, or updates, etc. It seems like we shouldn’t discourage such things—do you agree?
So, this isn’t an idea I still really endorse (partly because it doesn’t seem worth the complexity cost, partly because I just don’t think it was that important in the scheme of things), but I said this as someone who _also_ often makes additional comments on my post to expand ideas. And the point wasn’t to discourage that at all – just to also showcase which posts are generating discussion _beyond_ the author fleshing out their own ideas.
There is definitely value to this heuristic, but note that, e.g., I have commented on my own posts with nitpicky counterpoints to my own claims, or elaborations/digressions that are related but don’t really fit into the structure/flow of the post, or updates, etc. It seems like we shouldn’t discourage such things—do you agree?
So, this isn’t an idea I still really endorse (partly because it doesn’t seem worth the complexity cost, partly because I just don’t think it was that important in the scheme of things), but I said this as someone who _also_ often makes additional comments on my post to expand ideas. And the point wasn’t to discourage that at all – just to also showcase which posts are generating discussion _beyond_ the author fleshing out their own ideas.