Few people ever wrote here, and a lot of the writing was not helpful. stuff like “great” which feels good, but isn’t actionable.

then one day i felt i needed to prune a talk, but where? I asked “what did you like most?” “what did you like least?” and an odd thing happened. I didn’t get very useful results out of those questions either, but all of a sudden there was a lot more frequent and useful stuff showing up in the comments section.

I’m not exactly sure why that opens the tap for comments, but I think that your 4th point is the most important.

paperwork sucks, don’t do it if there isn’t something you can do WITH it.