corruption

I'm going to take this as a compliment since you seem to want more, so thanks. Always leave them wanting more is not exactly my motto but it is good advice for writers and commenters I think. Brevity is the soul of wit. KISS: keep it simple stupid or keep it short and simple. In his Elements of Style E.B. White emphasized the importance of saying what you have to say without belaboring the point or resorting to unnecessarily flowery language and his advice for writers in that thin book has stood the test of time, well, almost a hundred years.

If upvotes on social media is any sort of guide, and it shouldn't be, I've noticed that the amount of effort I put into a post or comment is almost inversely proportional to the upvotes given.

I haven't been talking about saidit specifically but now I will: until recently saidit has had a fairly small membership so it was high context, that is, most everyone knew the others, where they were coming from, what they were referring to, etc. Now with more members, way more, the context is lower. I do not mean that low context is necessarily negative. Not at all. Maybe I should be more expansive sometimes and will keep it in mind but can't promise anything. I do appreciate the feedback though so thanks again.

Have you noticed that not having a downvote button seems to make everything smoother? That was the result of good planning on the part of our benevolent overlords. It would have been easy to dismiss your comment with one click on other social media but instead of doing that, I thought about it and found something to say that I hope was positive and constructive. It was for me anyway.