I suppose the size of the audience is very important here. If there is a large enough audience then good posts will still receive a reasonable number of comments even if they get less than posts which have more of the factors that you described. On the other hand, when the size of the audience falls below a critical mass this kicks off a Negative Feedback Loop where less commenters means less posters and hence less commenters and so on and so forth. I’ll be curious to see whether LW2.0 had gotten us above this critical mass.
I suppose the size of the audience is very important here. If there is a large enough audience then good posts will still receive a reasonable number of comments even if they get less than posts which have more of the factors that you described. On the other hand, when the size of the audience falls below a critical mass this kicks off a Negative Feedback Loop where less commenters means less posters and hence less commenters and so on and so forth. I’ll be curious to see whether LW2.0 had gotten us above this critical mass.