I think literally “good post” mostly just feels sad. The variations that I appreciate sometimes at least type out a sentence or use less frequent words, which provide some evidence of the person engaging with the work, or… I dunno maybe it’s a just a “costly signal of fashion” thing. “I don’t have anything to add but just wanted to say I found this post helpful” crosses some threshold from “neutral or slightly negative” to “slightly positive.”
If there are more than three “mildly fashionable ‘good post’” type comments as described above, it switches from feeling net positive to net negative for me (unless there’s a lot of other comments that are more substantive)
If I post something, and a few days go by with zero comments, and then I finally get a comment, and then it turns out to be mostly contentless, I experience a tiny-roller-coast of “ooh! a comment!” …. “oh, it’s a lame comment” … “okay upon reflection I’m still glad someone did that because it makes the comment section a feel a bit more alive, or at bumps it up in recent discussion, which gives it another shot at actual conversation.
If it’s been years, and then someone comments on an old post of mine that hasn’t been discussed in awhile, I feel mostly good and a bit nostalgic. (“Oh, people are still enjoying that post!”)
So, querying my preferences a bit more in depth:
I think literally “good post” mostly just feels sad. The variations that I appreciate sometimes at least type out a sentence or use less frequent words, which provide some evidence of the person engaging with the work, or… I dunno maybe it’s a just a “costly signal of fashion” thing. “I don’t have anything to add but just wanted to say I found this post helpful” crosses some threshold from “neutral or slightly negative” to “slightly positive.”
If there are more than three “mildly fashionable ‘good post’” type comments as described above, it switches from feeling net positive to net negative for me (unless there’s a lot of other comments that are more substantive)
If I post something, and a few days go by with zero comments, and then I finally get a comment, and then it turns out to be mostly contentless, I experience a tiny-roller-coast of “ooh! a comment!” …. “oh, it’s a lame comment” … “okay upon reflection I’m still glad someone did that because it makes the comment section a feel a bit more alive, or at bumps it up in recent discussion, which gives it another shot at actual conversation.
If it’s been years, and then someone comments on an old post of mine that hasn’t been discussed in awhile, I feel mostly good and a bit nostalgic. (“Oh, people are still enjoying that post!”)