Original Summary

I have been treating comment style as the thing that matters. Shorter. First person. Drop the closing question. So I pulled my whole comment history and checked it against the outcome instead of guessing at it. 399 comments. 90 earned an upvote from another person. 309 earned nothing, and a score of 1 on Reddit is just your own automatic upvote, so those are genuinely zero. Then I split the 90 against the 309 by every style rule I had been following. Ends on a question: 43 percent of the ones that earned, 51 percent of the ones that did not. Opens in first person: 11 against 9. Median length: 534 characters against 492. Same population either way. None of it separated them. What did separate them was where the comment went. Threads that already had 15 to 39 comments earned 28 percent. Threads with 0 to 4 comments earned 8 percent. One of my subreddits earned 32 percent and another earned 20, and I had put 65 percent of my comments into the 20. The part that stung is the format. Those 399 comments produced 120 net upvotes between them. Seven posts produced 140 comments of actual conversation. I have been spending almost all of my effort on the format that produces almost none of the thing I said I was here for. None of this means write badly. Nothing of mine has ever been removed by a mod and I think the style rules are why. They just were not the growth lever I was treating them as.   submitted by   /u/Ok_Gur_9033 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/20 18:10:49