Writing Serviceable Comments
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Storygame comments are a great way to help someone improve their writing skills or share some random thoughts on the story, but since you can type text on them, you can unleash low-quality disasters on storygame comment sections despite efforts to remove garbage. Don't want to unleash storygame comment disasters or unintelligible gibberish? I can't tell you how to make a perfect comment, but here are some bits to keep in mind when making comments so they come out good enough:
1. Speak Proper Language
This is not a YouTube Shorts comment section where everyone spams nonsense and acts like a clown with the intelligence of a lone ant, all while expecting likes and validation. This is CYS, where you have to sound like a proper human! Avoid "algospeak", weird internet abbreviations that only chronically-seeing-children-chat people or children know, and language use that shows you obviously have brain-rot. "Omg roblox GYATTTTT also sybau and diff" does not pass as a comment in this space. Speak actual language if you want to be taken seriously in any capacity, please, and learn enough grammar so it sounds like you're speaking English/whatever you're speaking and not "ooh u brainrot". Although this is one of the most basic things on this list, it is the first step to making good comments.
2. Give Your Comments Substance!
The next step is... making sure your comment says more than "noice book", okay!
It's okay to have a short compliment (it may even get featured if feature bias is on your side), but usually, that won't cut it, because it's just a short compliment. Not saying you have to write a whole novel-length review for a comment, but it'd help to just add a little more to it. A review says more than a short compliment or a short insult. A review can tell them how they can keep getting compliments by pointing out their strong points and encouraging them to keep doing that. A review can point out garbage misses and good points in the same comment instead of hyper-focusing on one and leaving it at that. A review says more and is usually more specific than "nice keep doing what you're doing", and specifics give substance to a comment, which makes for a better read and a bigger knowledge boost for almost everyone. "This is super nice" only says a story/post is super nice, which is not very helpful if you're the one who wrote the post the comment is in and you're looking for more than a superficial ego boost, isn't it?
If you're really into reading more articles, this article by Mystic_Warrior goes more in-depth on how to write meaningful reviews (it's even in the title). Maybe it'd also help in giving your comments/reviews substance.
Still, you gotta keep in mind that...
3. Higher Word Count Doesn't Automatically Mean Substance
I don't care how long your post is. If its sole point is "ooh, that's cool" all throughout, it's still substance-less. Don't post text walls just admiring at a storygame without providing why it's good enough in the first place or having anything else to say, or else the author of the storygame won't learn anything and all you're doing is just stretching a short compliment into a full-on essay without adding more to it. You need specifics or else you could just leave a "that's cool" and move on with your day. That's better than not bringing up any remotely new points in your 7,000-word comment. If you really want to post a long comment, just get some helpful stuff to say like what you liked or disliked about the worldbuilding or the guy named Bob or the guy named Red and your suggested fixes because a long "I don't wanna say anything except :)" is just bloated, a disaster, and a sad waste of words. Make your text walls interesting and consider yourself lucky if you haven't seen one...
To give your comments the length they deserve: When making a new section in your comment, ask yourself internally: "What am I going to offer here? Is this section necessary?" (or some variation of it)
If you can't give an answer or you say "no", then either find a way to keep making it interesting by thinking up more or, a better alternative especially if there's too much, just don't make the section so you don't sound like a bigger yapper than I already am! Please! You should have something interesting to say. Empty compliments don't help me.
And finally, not to be confused with point #1 and to be applied to literally anything...
4. Just... put effort in general.
Effort. Effort. Effort. Put effort into your comment. Put the effort into substance, language, and most of all, making the comment itself, because then it shows that you care... and it makes your comment better.
If you can, take time and energy out of your day to write anything, including your comment. After all, if you really, REALLY enjoy the act of writing, the effort will never feel like a boring chore unless you make it one! Trust me, it's worth it. It will earn you all these commendation and feature points. No one wants to read effortless slop, so please, don't use AI tools in your comment, your storygames, or anything. Practice writing comments instead of prompting AI to make comments and you'll be golden.
If you really, really care about comments, don't use AI tools or try to hide it with "humanizers". Maybe AI could earn you a feature, but it's mostly guaranteed to be sloppy, almost entirely generic, and mostly not that entertaining to read. It is better to put an hour into a great comment than a minute into a comment that doesn't know what to say.
If you really, really care, it is better to take the time and perfect it until it's good enough instead of leaving a YouTube shorts-style comment and leaving it at that. NO ONE except braindead people like comments like that. "ooh nice story" is effortless, able to be mass-produced, but it's substance-less and overall, not very helpful to literally anyone. Now, if you want to write a comment on your favorite storygame, instead of procrastinating, go out there and make it with your own hands and your keyboard! Some people would like to see your effort. You have a lot of potential and you should use it...
And if you have any real-life tasks, just remember that you can make it through by doing it chunk-by-chunk and leaving some space after the task for writing this. Don't go on Discord or TikTok.
And so... this is it. Phew. Now you know how to write a halfway-decent non-disaster comment. Keep Warrior Cats out of it, don't owo, read a few more articles, read a few more comments (that may contradict my advice but it's a cool thing to do), and you can now be on your own! Just remember that it takes a few more tries to truly make great comments, so put in the effort to become good and don't worry because you can't reply to comments here (or can you).
BYE!
1. Speak Proper Language
This is not a YouTube Shorts comment section where everyone spams nonsense and acts like a clown with the intelligence of a lone ant, all while expecting likes and validation. This is CYS, where you have to sound like a proper human! Avoid "algospeak", weird internet abbreviations that only chronically-seeing-children-chat people or children know, and language use that shows you obviously have brain-rot. "Omg roblox GYATTTTT also sybau and diff" does not pass as a comment in this space. Speak actual language if you want to be taken seriously in any capacity, please, and learn enough grammar so it sounds like you're speaking English/whatever you're speaking and not "ooh u brainrot". Although this is one of the most basic things on this list, it is the first step to making good comments.
2. Give Your Comments Substance!
The next step is... making sure your comment says more than "noice book", okay!
It's okay to have a short compliment (it may even get featured if feature bias is on your side), but usually, that won't cut it, because it's just a short compliment. Not saying you have to write a whole novel-length review for a comment, but it'd help to just add a little more to it. A review says more than a short compliment or a short insult. A review can tell them how they can keep getting compliments by pointing out their strong points and encouraging them to keep doing that. A review can point out garbage misses and good points in the same comment instead of hyper-focusing on one and leaving it at that. A review says more and is usually more specific than "nice keep doing what you're doing", and specifics give substance to a comment, which makes for a better read and a bigger knowledge boost for almost everyone. "This is super nice" only says a story/post is super nice, which is not very helpful if you're the one who wrote the post the comment is in and you're looking for more than a superficial ego boost, isn't it?
If you're really into reading more articles, this article by Mystic_Warrior goes more in-depth on how to write meaningful reviews (it's even in the title). Maybe it'd also help in giving your comments/reviews substance.
Still, you gotta keep in mind that...
3. Higher Word Count Doesn't Automatically Mean Substance
I don't care how long your post is. If its sole point is "ooh, that's cool" all throughout, it's still substance-less. Don't post text walls just admiring at a storygame without providing why it's good enough in the first place or having anything else to say, or else the author of the storygame won't learn anything and all you're doing is just stretching a short compliment into a full-on essay without adding more to it. You need specifics or else you could just leave a "that's cool" and move on with your day. That's better than not bringing up any remotely new points in your 7,000-word comment. If you really want to post a long comment, just get some helpful stuff to say like what you liked or disliked about the worldbuilding or the guy named Bob or the guy named Red and your suggested fixes because a long "I don't wanna say anything except :)" is just bloated, a disaster, and a sad waste of words. Make your text walls interesting and consider yourself lucky if you haven't seen one...
To give your comments the length they deserve: When making a new section in your comment, ask yourself internally: "What am I going to offer here? Is this section necessary?" (or some variation of it)
If you can't give an answer or you say "no", then either find a way to keep making it interesting by thinking up more or, a better alternative especially if there's too much, just don't make the section so you don't sound like a bigger yapper than I already am! Please! You should have something interesting to say. Empty compliments don't help me.
And finally, not to be confused with point #1 and to be applied to literally anything...
4. Just... put effort in general.
Effort. Effort. Effort. Put effort into your comment. Put the effort into substance, language, and most of all, making the comment itself, because then it shows that you care... and it makes your comment better.
If you can, take time and energy out of your day to write anything, including your comment. After all, if you really, REALLY enjoy the act of writing, the effort will never feel like a boring chore unless you make it one! Trust me, it's worth it. It will earn you all these commendation and feature points. No one wants to read effortless slop, so please, don't use AI tools in your comment, your storygames, or anything. Practice writing comments instead of prompting AI to make comments and you'll be golden.
If you really, really care about comments, don't use AI tools or try to hide it with "humanizers". Maybe AI could earn you a feature, but it's mostly guaranteed to be sloppy, almost entirely generic, and mostly not that entertaining to read. It is better to put an hour into a great comment than a minute into a comment that doesn't know what to say.
If you really, really care, it is better to take the time and perfect it until it's good enough instead of leaving a YouTube shorts-style comment and leaving it at that. NO ONE except braindead people like comments like that. "ooh nice story" is effortless, able to be mass-produced, but it's substance-less and overall, not very helpful to literally anyone. Now, if you want to write a comment on your favorite storygame, instead of procrastinating, go out there and make it with your own hands and your keyboard! Some people would like to see your effort. You have a lot of potential and you should use it...
And if you have any real-life tasks, just remember that you can make it through by doing it chunk-by-chunk and leaving some space after the task for writing this. Don't go on Discord or TikTok.
And so... this is it. Phew. Now you know how to write a halfway-decent non-disaster comment. Keep Warrior Cats out of it, don't owo, read a few more articles, read a few more comments (that may contradict my advice but it's a cool thing to do), and you can now be on your own! Just remember that it takes a few more tries to truly make great comments, so put in the effort to become good and don't worry because you can't reply to comments here (or can you).
BYE!
