Some comments don't really leave themselves open to much more of a response than your basic "thanks",

Mine typically do, especially when it's someone I'm communicating with for the first time. My comments here relate only to my replies, I can't speak for others. Anyway, those that do the old one word comments generally are out of my mind before I've even clicked away, never to return to their blog.

"I suspect there may be some technical difficulty in that when the thing was designed it doesn't seem like any provision was made for permissions which means nothing can be private securely enough (it's been forever since I read the whitepaper so I could be remembering completely incorrectly and/or mixing it up with something else). Which is fine as I don't see it necessary for any one thing to fulfil all needs. On the one hand it would be infinitely more convenient to just be able to just private message someone on steem (like you can do with every other socnet) as you then don't have to track them down on Discord etc (assuming they even have Discord etc), on the other, eggs and baskets XD"

Here's that I.T. person talk my pea-brain doesn't understand. 😜

The caveman remark was in respect of the prehistoric way I had to communicate with that user. Rather than having one comment thread, the conversation happened over multiple ones, multiple different posts, and the comment threads attached to each one.

I'm sorry, there's section of your reply I can't as the text is small and I don't have my glasses...I'm sure it's bloody awesome though.