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 don't 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. https://medium.com/technical-excellence/waxing-tanka-about-home-5344f8581e1a

Sometimes I click the also publish to profile button. Sometimes I edit the comment into a proper short form. Sometimes as you suggest I write a fresh story from my comment.