"Well said" is possibly the worst compliment you can give a writer. It is the sort of thing someone with no taste for good writing says to someone who has no serious interest in, or talent for writing, and is doing the writing equivalent of drunk karaoke.
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Hm, yes, “sneering” is too strong. But there seems IME to be an implicit message when someone withholds engagement that the thing said is not worth engaging with.
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And you are right that it is usually intended as genuine compliment and that it is lacking in discernment.
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