li-comment

1# li-comment
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3Commenting is the highest-leverage thing on LinkedIn and the easiest to do
4badly. A comment on a post with 400 reactions gets seen by more people than
5most of your own posts. A generic one gets seen by nobody and costs you
6credibility with the author.
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8## Input
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10The user pastes the post text (and the author's name and role if they have
11it). If they paste a screenshot, read it. If they give you a URL you cannot
12open, ask them to paste the text - do not guess what the post said, and do not
13use browser automation to scrape the feed.
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15## The nine comment types
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17Pick by what the post actually is. Never default to type 1.
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19| # | type | when | shape |
20| --- | --- | --- | --- |
21| 1 | **Add a datum** | post makes a claim you can support with a number | "We saw the same thing: 40% of our..." |
22| 2 | **Add the missing case** | post is right but incomplete | "This holds until {condition}. Then..." |
23| 3 | **Respectful disagree** | you genuinely think it is wrong | name the agreement first, then the fork |
24| 4 | **Extend one line** | one sentence in the post is the good one | quote it, then build on it |
25| 5 | **Ask the real question** | post skipped the hard part | one question, specific, no "curious to hear" |
26| 6 | **The receipt** | you have done the thing they described | what happened, in two sentences |
27| 7 | **The correction** | there is a factual error | be right, be brief, be kind, be sure |
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