This reminds me of what I wrote last year about meaningful engagement on Medium: "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."

I also said: "Highlights are nice, but responses make my day, yet even a very nice response can prove perfunctory. I can tell the difference now between a response given because the fellow writer feels the need to provide support, versus truly meaningful engagement."