“Premier Doug Ford says the province will review and “re-evaluate” all lands in the Greenbelt — including those that are part of controversial land-swap deals that have engulfed the government and forced the resignations of a cabinet minister and his chief of staff.”

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    It may be nicer, but is much less successful. While both comments have received the same number of arrow button presses at the time of writing, only mine got a reply, making it the clear winner in total number of reactions and also by virtue of a reply being worth more than an arrow button press.

    If you want to write friendly private journal entries to yourself, that’s great and all, but the purpose of a discussion forum is to get feedback from other users. As such, one has to play to the crowd in order to attract their feedback.

    [Edit: It has taken the arrow button press lead now. Clearly nice isn’t what the audience wants to see, unfortunately.]

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        I agree that a reply wasn’t needed, but the audience ate it up. It has almost as many arrow button presses as the first and just as many replies. Why deny the adoring fans? Their taste is not to mine either, but if I want to satisfy my own tastes, I can keep to myself. We’re here because of other people and they have made it clear what they like.

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      No. You can be civil regardless of the forum or media when giving feedback.

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        I would be if that is what the audience wanted, but given that we have a perfect head-to-head comparison right here to see what they want, clearly that is not what the audience wants to see. My approach garnered 53 arrow button presses and three replies. The other only saw 25 arrow button presses and one reply.

        The winner is clear. The uncivil approach attracted more than twice as many fans. It’s not my cup of tea either, but if it were about me I could go to my private journal. Like it or not, we come here to play for the audience.

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          There is a weighted bias on the direction of the arrow presses. Clearly my replies are off topic and shouldn’t count towards your metric.

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            There is a weighted bias on the direction of the arrow presses.

            The arrow buttons convey no information other than indicating that an audience is near. It is a poor man’s analytics system. That is all. Naturally, people are only going to let someone know that a comment was seen if they like it – for a couple of reasons:

            1. It takes time out of one’s day to press a button. There is an opportunity cost to that. Nobody is going to literally pay for content they don’t like when there is no obligation to. How stupid would that be?
            2. As before, the reason we come here and not write in our private journals is because of the audience. Even if we ignore that there is a cost to pressing the button, why would the audience want undesirable content to know that it has been seen? Wanting to be seen is the whole reason for its creation! The audience obviously would want to hide the fact that they exist in such cases to not further incentivize creation of such content.

            If you receive no button presses or replies, that’s when you know that you’ve created something nobody is a fan of. When the fans are interacting with your work, you know you’ve created something they want. And it is clear what type of work brings out more fans! This is a community. Your personal tastes are irrelevant.

            Clearly my replies are off topic and shouldn’t count towards your metric.

            If off-topic is what the audience wants, off-topic is what the audience gets. It’s not for me to decide. Again, if it were for me I’d write in my private journal.

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                Case in point. I take the civil and informative road, as you suggested I do, and I get the least passionate response to date. I suppose I still mustered something that grabbed your attention, but it is quite apparent that you prefer where I started. You put way more effort into displaying your fanhood back then. Now it seems you’re bored. And, fair enough. Most people do find civil discussion boring, as also demonstrated at the top of the thread.

                That said, I like what you’ve done overall and want to show my own appreciation to you, so I let it be known that you have been seen once more.