I skimmed a couple page of that feed x 3 times over different time of day. It is hard to say whether it is positive or negative evidence that people regularly leave comments because there is still no data on how often people read older posts. Though, for the record, the ratio of comments on new vs old posts is higher than I expected, at like 1 in 5-10. I thought people are going to be at least 4x less likely to comment on old posts from expecting fewer engagements but this seems wrong.
Well, N=1, but I leave comments regularly on old posts.
Also, if you look at https://www.greaterwrong.com/?sort=active there are some posts from 2022 − 2025, so it happens regularly, maybe rarely per post tho.
I skimmed a couple page of that feed x 3 times over different time of day. It is hard to say whether it is positive or negative evidence that people regularly leave comments because there is still no data on how often people read older posts. Though, for the record, the ratio of comments on new vs old posts is higher than I expected, at like 1 in 5-10. I thought people are going to be at least 4x less likely to comment on old posts from expecting fewer engagements but this seems wrong.