I hunted your comment down here and upvoted it strongly.
I basically only write comments, and when I write “comments for the ages” that I feel proud of, I consider it a good sign if they (1) get many upvotes (especially votes that arrive after lots of competing sibling comments already exist) and (2) do not get any responses (except “Wow! Good! Thanks!” kind of stuff).
Looking at “first level comments” to worthwhile OPs according to a measure like this might provide some interesting and reasonably brief postscripts.
Applying the same basic measure to posts themselves, if an OP gets a large number of direct replies that are highly upvoted that OP may not be dense with relatively useful and/or flawless content. (Though there are probably exceptions that could be detected by thoughtful curating… for example, if the OP is a request for ideas then a lot of highly voted comments are kinda the point.)
I hunted your comment down here and upvoted it strongly.
I basically only write comments, and when I write “comments for the ages” that I feel proud of, I consider it a good sign if they (1) get many upvotes (especially votes that arrive after lots of competing sibling comments already exist) and (2) do not get any responses (except “Wow! Good! Thanks!” kind of stuff).
Looking at “first level comments” to worthwhile OPs according to a measure like this might provide some interesting and reasonably brief postscripts.
Applying the same basic measure to posts themselves, if an OP gets a large number of direct replies that are highly upvoted that OP may not be dense with relatively useful and/or flawless content. (Though there are probably exceptions that could be detected by thoughtful curating… for example, if the OP is a request for ideas then a lot of highly voted comments are kinda the point.)