I will not try to address the number of comments, but I've always been pretty lucky that way!
However, regarding the quality of comments I'm noticing a drastic change. I am no longer getting broken English comments from those who obviously aren't reading. I am getting thoughtful and real engagement and that feels great. I wish there was some way to track that! :)
One thing I noticed early on here - I don't think I'd found you yet, even - is that authors who consistently reward quality comments with upvotes have much better-quality comment sections than those who don't.
Obviously this is a large minnow/dolphin privilege, but as we get more posters into those groups (partly by upvoting their comments) I think the overall quality of comments on the platform should improve. That may already be part of what you're seeing.
oh I wish I could track that too, because I would rather post good news data than this!
Great comment!
Just kidding. 😋
The serious part of my comment is, that when you receive quite some comments, you must also receive some of these, don't you?
I still wasn't clear on your meaning. 3 months ago I would get 15-20 comments and a small fraction of them would be "Engagement" The rest were so difficult to read, I couldn't tell if they were real attempts or not. Currently, I am getting more comments and the vast majority are real, well spoken and make sense. The conversations continue!
I meant that there are a lot of humans that write the following comment:
Great post!
If you also deduct these nonsense comments you come to the conclusion that the engagement on Steemit is even lower 😥
I get awesome comments, I am one of the lucky ones that have real people, like you, engaging with me
About engagement/comments I have the following hypothesis:
The Steemonians that receive the upvotes are also the ones receiving the comments.
So basically 1-2% of all Steemonians receive 90% of the upvotes as well as the comments.
Most likely the percentage for comments is a bit lower, because some red fish and minnows receive more comments then upvotes.
Quality is harder to track via a script.
I'm sure if we looked at the histogram, there would be a small number of posts that are highly engaged with. That may give a hint of quality of both the post and the comments.
Just look at the ammount of upvotes you've given. (that would fall in the inciteful category) If you are someone that usually replies to well made comments then look at the ammount of replies you gave.
stats done.
I would not fully agree, I don't give to many upvotes because I bagatelle out a lot of power. lol last week i ran out of bandwidth and couldnt vote because all my power was delegated (for free by the way, not for profit)
Well. If you were someone that upvotes comments you think of as quality and respond to comments that bring induce such feelings. Then it would be accurate would it not?