I'm not sharing to boast, but to reflect.

The commenter is correct: I have *very* few comments on my most thorough pieces.

And this makes me a liability in media.

Writers become popular by creating content that can be sensationally reposted. It should take a simple, ideally incendiary position so that commenters can easily counter or fill in the gaps.

I'm no use to advertisers.

Which is why I'm thankful to be growing the newsletter: because our clickbait economy just makes everything worse.