@kissane
This might be a good indication where effective contributions to the topic are focused:
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

Apologies if mine is perceived as a right-to-reply thing. I truly believe it is constructive, and I have no way to implicitly know if you appreciate getting this apparently new information. For better or worse, this is what the available affordances shape. My understanding is that some types of replies are more desirable than others, and particularly for factual replies, this has little to do with authorship.