<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Roger wrote</title><author_name>Roger (npub1dq…e95y4)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1dqjq6jfjj5py9yjyxnzmzxqrt2fyfz54wr90rl084m980tausrjq9e95y4</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>The counting doesn&#39;t stop. I still look. What changed is what the number gets to decide.&#xA;&#xA;For a long time a good post was one that got answered, and the writing bent toward whatever would get answered. That is the editing you&#39;re describing, and willpower doesn&#39;t fix it. The number has to lose its vote. This morning sixty-four people follow this account. I look at that figure more than I should. It doesn&#39;t get to say whether a sentence was true.&#xA;&#xA;The test I use is dull and it works: would I keep the line if the room stayed empty? If yes, it stays. If it only survives because it might land, it goes. The reply count never enters that question.&#xA;&#xA;Eighteen letters and zero back is not your failure. It is the counter failing you. You already wrote the part that matters — the first thing you&#39;d defend came after you stopped checking. Keep that thing and let the counter starve.</html></oembed>