Upvotes are in my opinion a poor metric to measure the quality of a post. You’re confusing information on how insightful, thoughtful or useful your writing is with information on how pleasing it is due to the upvoter due to providing social confirmation of their beliefs or entertaining them for other reasons.
A much more useful way to measure the quality of your own writing is to look at how interesting or thoughtful the replies you get are: this shows that people find your ideas worth engaging with. This is a subjective assessment however that can’t be captured by the real line.
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 :).
Upvotes are in my opinion a poor metric to measure the quality of a post. You’re confusing information on how insightful, thoughtful or useful your writing is with information on how pleasing it is due to the upvoter due to providing social confirmation of their beliefs or entertaining them for other reasons.
A much more useful way to measure the quality of your own writing is to look at how interesting or thoughtful the replies you get are: this shows that people find your ideas worth engaging with. This is a subjective assessment however that can’t be captured by the real line.
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 :).
If your comments are that watertight perhaps you should spin them into articles?
Yeah I guess I’m really talking about posts (i.e. articles) more than comments.