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John_Maxwell_IV comments on Should you write longer comments? (Statistical analysis of the relationship between comment length and ratings) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 21 July 2015 04:34:43AM 9 points [-]

One story is that people are more willing to read long comments from Yvain or Eliezer because they have reputations for being insightful.

Comment author: David_Bolin 21 July 2015 07:46:26AM 2 points [-]

I think this is probably true, and I have seen cases where e.g. Eliezer is highly upvoted for a certain comment, and some other person little or not at all for basically the same insight in a different case.

However, it also seems to me that their long comments do tend to be especially insightful in fact.