How do you guys feel about accounts that post threads and then don’t ever comment in them?

If a person makes a post and doesn’t participate further, then there can be valid reasons, but over all it just feels rude, dishonorable or something to me.

I’m starting to wonder if when an OP doesn’t reply that they are just bots fishing for common responses for some LLM training data or something.


Early answers seem to say that its common and not rude to not respond, for different reasons.

  • Railison@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 year ago

    Sometimes it’s better to reply in comments to address specific questions, other times better to post an ETA. Sometimes, I just wanted to provoke discussion, or I’m about to do something that’ll leave me away for a couple of hours.

    • nekat_emanresu@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      On principle, i’m replying to your comment as its first :P Edit: i came in here to do this, but i woulda responded either way lol

      Im more talking after an hour, not a single comment or update from OP.

      There definitely are good reasons to take time responding or not comment for ages etc of course. Some comments of course don’t need a response.