Someone has always read your post. If no one responds it's either because it's a boring restatement of what everyone else already knows, because it's so colossally stupid they don't want to dignify it with a response, or, in the case of my posts, it's simply too intellectual for them to craft a response of appropriate wit and insight.
Every fucking site on the internet has feedback buttons and, while there are times were ranking responses is helpful, they're only a detriment to normal conversation. Even imageboards aren't immune to this with the (you)-counting, but at least you still have to join the conversation to add them. These aren't places to perform in front of an audience, they're places to exchange ideas. I don't want little dopamine rushes shaping my posting behavior, I want to talk to people and have them talk back.
>>120102The 90% thing is that normally 1% of users add all the content (like videos and comments), 10% use interaction buttons (click like or subscribe), and 90% just silently lurk. According to moot, 4chan circa 2015 was an exemplar of user participation by having ~10% (or was it 15?) of users actually making posts. I think the lack of an easy way to convey your judgement of something forces people to speak up and get involved, effectively dragging the 10% into the 1% by force.