I'd say it's a mixed bag for me when it comes to whether someone comments back or not. Basically, if I enjoy reading what someone writes, that means I have some level of respect for what they write, usually, regardless of the topic. I am getting some self fulfillment, and I may learn something new, if it's on a philosophical especially. That's what I wanted from it, that's what I got from it regardless of any other reward. When it comes to Hive, it's a maintainer for staying here, no reward, no self fulfillment, why bother.
Now say, you read someone's stuff and they spent a considerable amount of times commenting back to you should you leave a comment, then one day, they just stop. Obviously, if they just plain stop, you did or said something to offend them, and consciously, after that, you feel guilty, like you are intruding on their space, not much self fulfillment if one starts to feel guilty because, obviously, they'd rather have you bug off. I don't take it lightly before deciding to bug off, I have to really feel something went wrong somewhere, it's the internet, could be something you said today, last night, last week, last month, who knows, too many places to go, to many things to do, just move on from it.
I am not the type of person who wants to spend time on people who just want to hate on something, it closes your perspective, leaves you in a position unable to be objective. Like the current Epstein debacle, I could write a few things that could lead people to believe I was trying to defend the man instead of looking inside the man at his core, not the level of focus to hate on one aspect of his behavior. Which is propaganda driven, which I've run out of patience for. Don't misunderstand that, you learn a lot from the propaganda machines but not if you can already predict what's going to be driven, that train already came and went. We already know it's "everybody hate on the sex offender" and here's some more evidence you need as to why. We have plenty of evidence, what we don't have is what drove this man, who was this man, and how did he manage his position and maintain it for so long. Give me that, and I may have time to listen. Because, underneath it all, is the reason for the cover up, and that's what they don't want you to know. Don't bother trying to feed a one hundred year history of hasidic judaism, it's not helping me figure out who the man was and I'd probably just end up realising they had a thing for grape juice. But grape juice don't give me the answers I want. For me to watch the propaganda spin machine, I have to be compelled by something other than pizza and soda pop, or a really compelling reason outside of pizza gate to overcome my impatience for the host, because the host is going to lead the guest to where I don't want to go. We already know he's a pizza loving, grape soda drinking pervert. What's new for today?