last time i posted on lesswrong the comments made me feel bad so i just can't bring myself to post there again. doesnt matter how reasonable my brain tries to be about it my body is like FUCK THAT
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confession, i totally stopped reading responses to me on LW at some point and idk how many long, thought-out comments ppl have made to me that i've never seen
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I think it's fine to not engage with comments more than you want to. Like it's great when people engage with their comments but I don't want people to not write because they're not going to keep up on comments. That seems like the wrong incentive
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yea but it feels like a situation where not engaging is failing, or something? like if someone is giving well-reasoned criticism and your body is like AHH I DONT WANT CRITICSM RN, but you *know* that's what LW is for, then not responding feels like signalling u have no response
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Maybe it's failing a little bit, but I think you're succeeding more than you're failing by posting in the first place!
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I have this hangup too. E.g. this week I didn't comment on the "lessons of Xanadu" post because I have very low energy all the time yet feel I ought to be ready to defend my criticism if I'm gonna be critical.