I think authors generally are more rewarded by comments than by upvotes.
Curious if you’ve done some sort of survey on this. My own feelings are that I care less about the average comment on one of my posts than 10 karma, and I care less about that than I do about a really very good comment (which might intuitively be worth like 30 karma) (but maybe I’m not provoking the right comments?). In general, I don’t have an intuitive sense that comments are all that important except for the info value when reading, and I guess the ‘people care about me’ value as an incentive to write. I do like the idea of the thing I wrote being woven into the way people think, but I don’t feel like comments are the best way for that to happen.
Curious if you’ve done some sort of survey on this. My own feelings are that I care less about the average comment on one of my posts than 10 karma, and I care less about that than I do about a really very good comment (which might intuitively be worth like 30 karma) (but maybe I’m not provoking the right comments?). In general, I don’t have an intuitive sense that comments are all that important except for the info value when reading, and I guess the ‘people care about me’ value as an incentive to write. I do like the idea of the thing I wrote being woven into the way people think, but I don’t feel like comments are the best way for that to happen.