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jsteinhardt 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: jsteinhardt 21 July 2015 05:19:15AM 5 points [-]

I think some of my most-researched comment / posts have gotten relatively few replies. The more thorough you are, the less room there is for people to disagree without putting a decent amount of thought in. On the other hand, if you dash out a post without much fact-checking, you'll probably get lots of replies :).

Comment author: eternal_neophyte 21 July 2015 12:41:22PM 1 point [-]

If your comments are that watertight perhaps you should spin them into articles?

Comment author: jsteinhardt 21 July 2015 02:51:42PM 0 points [-]

Yeah I guess I'm really talking about posts (i.e. articles) more than comments.