I've seen multiple people post similar things on this thread. I actually have the opposite experience. Most of my most upvoted comments tend to be multiple para

I've seen multiple people post similar things on this thread. I actually have the opposite experience. Most of my most upvoted comments tend to be multiple paragraphs with many citations I guess the difference is I don't make these types of posts on software-engineering heavy discussions. I've been a Wikipedia editor for a few years and I have a lot of niche interests in botany, evolutionary biology, anthropology, microbiology, etc. There are certain non-software/hardware topics HN seems to really like (phages, the gut microbiome, and nootropics come to mind). It seems that making a long comment with a bunch of citations related to one of those topics is more likely to get you upvotes. Probably because its something a lot of people will be interested in but you're much less likely to be disagreed with given the lack of community expertise around the topics Maybe my posts wouldn't do as well on a botany forum haha