I completely agree. Plus I sometimes use the comment pane as an outline for a future essays. Moreover, as I wrote way back when, "I always read on Medium. I am going about it differently now. I have read a few articles about what you say about supporting fellow writers, but it goes beyond support, which can sometimes feel perfunctory or obligatory. Meaningful engagement is getting into a discussion with the piece, for the writer and the other readers to see, and enables one to broaden the base of who benefits from ones thoughts, and I have no issue citing my own stories, in context. I am not in it to shill for MPP $$ so I dont care, and frankly it’s stupid, that some consider citing ones own work in a response to be bad form. Why short change my message, and the readers thereof, with paraphrases."