Sure, but that’s definitely not the case here, as pings only worked in comments and not the body posts.
I do it from time to time to fight the “empty dancefloor” effect that sometimes prevent people from commenting. I’ve done some testing in the past, and having at least one comment usually helps to get others, compared to having none.
I do it from time to time to fight the “empty dancefloor” effect that sometimes prevent people from commenting. I’ve done some testing in the past, and having at least one comment usually helps to get others, compared to having none.
You aren’t the only one doing this and it’s pretty harmless. Don’t sweat it imo.
I’m biased though because I agree with you that it does seem to lead to better post engagement than just adding info to the body of the post.
Thanks. Another aspect is that sometimes you want people to be able to upvote your opinion independently from the post, so it makes sense to have a separated comment
The downside to it I guess is that with the default hot sorting, your comment tends to get pushed down leading to posts not having much context until you’ve scrolled down the comments somewhat
Sure, but that’s definitely not the case here, as pings only worked in comments and not the body posts.
I do it from time to time to fight the “empty dancefloor” effect that sometimes prevent people from commenting. I’ve done some testing in the past, and having at least one comment usually helps to get others, compared to having none.
You aren’t the only one doing this and it’s pretty harmless. Don’t sweat it imo.
I’m biased though because I agree with you that it does seem to lead to better post engagement than just adding info to the body of the post.
Thanks. Another aspect is that sometimes you want people to be able to upvote your opinion independently from the post, so it makes sense to have a separated comment
The downside to it I guess is that with the default hot sorting, your comment tends to get pushed down leading to posts not having much context until you’ve scrolled down the comments somewhat
That’s fine, most of the time the context is in the OP, I just add my personal opinion in the comment