I find the topic of learning how to be a better commenter particularly interesting. If you have any further thoughts on that, I’d like to hear about them.
I think that a common reason that people who might have commented on something end up not doing so is that they aren’t sure if what they had to say is actually worthwhile. Well, just saying ‘I agree!’ probably isn’t, but this does raise the question of how how high that threshold should be.
The first paragraph of this comment is near that borderline, in my opinion—it could pretty much be formulaic: “I find [subtopic] particularly interesting. If you have any further thoughts on that, I’d like to hear about them.”
On the other hand, it’s true, and conveys information that an upvote wouldn’t, so I do consider it worthwhile.
I think it varies from author to author. I know I appreciated getting this comment (and I think periodically having a new comment briefly bump an old post into the public consciousness again is fine).
I find the topic of learning how to be a better commenter particularly interesting. If you have any further thoughts on that, I’d like to hear about them.
I think that a common reason that people who might have commented on something end up not doing so is that they aren’t sure if what they had to say is actually worthwhile. Well, just saying ‘I agree!’ probably isn’t, but this does raise the question of how how high that threshold should be.
The first paragraph of this comment is near that borderline, in my opinion—it could pretty much be formulaic: “I find [subtopic] particularly interesting. If you have any further thoughts on that, I’d like to hear about them.”
On the other hand, it’s true, and conveys information that an upvote wouldn’t, so I do consider it worthwhile.
I think it varies from author to author. I know I appreciated getting this comment (and I think periodically having a new comment briefly bump an old post into the public consciousness again is fine).