Kinda weird meta note: I find myself judging both my posts, and other people’s, via how many comments they get. i.e. how much are people engaged. (Not aiming to maximize comments but for some “reasonable number”).
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).
So, I have a weird sense of wanting to see a “comment count minus author’s comments”, for slightly different reasons. I don’t think this is actually a good feature to have, but the fact that I want it feels like weird evidence of something.
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.
Kinda weird meta note: I find myself judging both my posts, and other people’s, via how many comments they get. i.e. how much are people engaged. (Not aiming to maximize comments but for some “reasonable number”).
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).
So, I have a weird sense of wanting to see a “comment count minus author’s comments”, for slightly different reasons. I don’t think this is actually a good feature to have, but the fact that I want it feels like weird evidence of something.
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.