I notice on a lot of mags, there is one or two people posting, and either 0, a handful, or quite a bit of upvotes, but no one is really engaging, most the time there are 0 comments.

I think in order to foster the growth of our community, we must try to engage more with the people generating the content, it’s helpful and encouraging for them, and also a positive sign for people who are coming into the fediverse. I post quite a bit, and comments always make me feel like it was worth it!

Also, keep upvoting! Someone responded to your post or comment, and you’re just grateful for that or agree with them? Upvote them! Engage! That’s all :)

  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
    66·
    1 year ago

    You can’t force this stuff though. No-one wants a ton of vapid, low-effort comments put there just for the sake of it.

    • euphoria@kbin.socialOP
      12·
      1 year ago

      i’m certainly not asking for comments for the sake of comments, i am asking for less lurking and more generating. people usually have something to say, add, or discuss, it’s effort-level is subjective. i just want those people to feel encouraged to speak out, its safer to do so here than it was on reddit, and it’s also helpful

      • xuxebiko@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        It can get a bit frustating at times, but people do speak when they want to, and when they do its usually thoughtful. It helps to respond back.
        My take is to enjoy the silence for now. Once they warm up, we’ll be wishing they’d stayed silent ;)

      • brcl@artemis.camp
        2·
        1 year ago

        I wonder if she was two moves ahead of us the whole time knowing the song itself was ironic, not the situations in the song…

        • blivet@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          I like to think so, but a lot of intelligent people pick up on the meaning of words from context, and sometimes they get it wrong. I remember reading that Susan Sontag used the word “magma” as if it meant something like “foundation” or “basis”.

          • density@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            What does magma mean?

            All I know about sontag is the “disease as metaphor” stuff. so I know she is interested in using material situations (hi5/tb). so is it totally unpredictable that she’d use geology as metaphor?

            I tried searching for what you might be alluding to and found like this page where sontag is incidentally in the side bar: Sappho and the Fevered Heart: Anne Carson on Jealousy –

            This, indeed, is the raw nature of jealousy — beneath the narrative, beyond the magma of feeling, it is a projection, a self-construction, a self-response that reveals more about our relationship to love itself, which springs from our relationship to ourselves, than about any object of desire.

            And a few other similar hits… if you are saying that Sontag is wrong to use “magma” as “foundation”… I would have to say on what basis you claim that?

            • blivet@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              if you are saying that Sontag is wrong to use “magma” as “foundation”… I would have to say on what basis you claim that?

              A foundation is usually a stable structure, not a liquid.

              • density@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                I can imagine a context in which that would make sense depending what was being discussed. Maybe the implication was that there is no real foundation. Would need more info to be sure she is really totally misunderstanding rather than being a bit weird.

    • SamXavia@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      @HeartyBeast Yeah this makes sense, I sadly still see upvotes in posts people create asking questions. When the OC tried to ask a question it’s helpful to have an answer but yes not everyone should have to comment as it might not be useful and could clog up the feed.

      • euphoria@kbin.socialOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        the thing is, a lot of people wont answer or comment in the first place. maybe they think someone else will, but then that ends up not being the case

        • brcl@artemis.camp
          1·
          1 year ago

          I like to read other comments on the material and offer my viewpoints to their comments. Like this. But without comments, I have no one to offer a different viewpoint to.

        • SamXavia@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          @euphoria Yeah I do feel like it might just come down to a few people having to possibly go around and put something relevant in someones comments to really get things going.