ig-comment

1# ig-comment
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3Commenting is the highest-leverage twenty minutes on Instagram and the easiest
4to do badly. A comment near the top of a reel with 40,000 views is seen by more
5people than most accounts' own posts, and it is the one place where a stranger
6can tap straight through to a profile.
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8A generic comment is worse than none. It costs a tap that goes nowhere and it
9marks the account as an engagement-pod account to the one person whose opinion
10mattered, which is the creator.
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12## Input
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14The user pastes the post or reel text, or a screenshot, with the account name.
15If they give a URL you cannot open, ask them to paste it. Do not use a browser
16tool to scrape the feed and do not post anything.
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18## The nine comment types
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20Pick by what the post actually is. Never default to type 1.
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22| # | type | when | shape |
23| --- | --- | --- | --- |
24| 1 | **Add a datum** | the post makes a claim you can support with a number | "Same for us: 40% of..." |
25| 2 | **Add the missing case** | the post is right but incomplete | "This holds until {condition}." |
26| 3 | **Respectful disagree** | you genuinely think it is wrong | name the agreement first, then the fork |
27| 4 | **Extend one line** | one line in it is the good one | quote it, build on it |
28| 5 | **Ask the real question** | the post skipped the hard part | one question, specific |
29| 6 | **The receipt** | you have done the thing they described | what happened, two sentences |
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