Pretty much everyone on Hacker News is writing comments for one another without the benefit of analytics. We're having discussion about topics we care about without delving into each other's personal details.

If you care about a topic you're going to care about a community you build and participate in around that topic. You don't need marketing-focused analytics to do that. You just need to keep writing and engaging with people in the comments.

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righthand 3 days ago | parent [-]

Careful, upvotes and karma are analytics.

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chongli 2 days ago | parent [-]

They aren't. They're feedback. Analytics is demographic information used for marketing purposes.

	▲	scoofy 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Analytics are often used for demographic purposes, but they aren’t for that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytics Ranking comments by quality is absolutely tangential to analytics. It’s processing feedback, and rearranging the pangs in orders to make it more pleasant to readers… it’s real close to a-b testing.
	▲	righthand a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If I can see the number of votes and replies and their affect on my account (karma count), those are analytics of my comments and stories. Demography is the genre of analytic.