As someone who’s written high-effort posts, I appreciate the thought.
That said, while I can’t speak for others, personally I’d rather have low-effort criticism on my high-effort posts than no engagement at all. Even low-effort criticism can prompt useful discussion, it communicates to me what kinds of immediate reactions my post provoked, the post having more comments increases the odds of more people reading it, etc.
The main situation in which I would be annoyed by low-effort criticism, would be if it was raising an objection which I had already addressed in the post and if the person seemed unaware of me having done so. That doesn’t seem to be the case with either of your examples, though.
I also feel that as an author, I should just accept it that if I write long posts, then people are more likely to skim them or only read them in part, and comment based on that. That’s a cost that I accept when I decide to write a long post; because me writing a long post means that I’m imposing a cost of time on my readers, and I can’t expect every reader to find that cost worth paying. If people don’t read my posts in full, then that means that I as a writer have failed to provide them with enough value to make the post worth their time. That’s a failing on my part, and I don’t consider people impolite for providing me with low value when I’ve also failed to provide them with high value.
As someone who’s written high-effort posts, I appreciate the thought.
That said, while I can’t speak for others, personally I’d rather have low-effort criticism on my high-effort posts than no engagement at all. Even low-effort criticism can prompt useful discussion, it communicates to me what kinds of immediate reactions my post provoked, the post having more comments increases the odds of more people reading it, etc.
The main situation in which I would be annoyed by low-effort criticism, would be if it was raising an objection which I had already addressed in the post and if the person seemed unaware of me having done so. That doesn’t seem to be the case with either of your examples, though.
I also feel that as an author, I should just accept it that if I write long posts, then people are more likely to skim them or only read them in part, and comment based on that. That’s a cost that I accept when I decide to write a long post; because me writing a long post means that I’m imposing a cost of time on my readers, and I can’t expect every reader to find that cost worth paying. If people don’t read my posts in full, then that means that I as a writer have failed to provide them with enough value to make the post worth their time. That’s a failing on my part, and I don’t consider people impolite for providing me with low value when I’ve also failed to provide them with high value.