As I said, I think the social nudges are correct here and working as designed:
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nudge to get others to participate in the topic to unlock further deeper conversation
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nudge to merge, consolidate, or update previous replies rather than replying to the same topic over and over
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nudge to create your own topic so you can control it and post as much as you want about “your thing”; this can be crosslinked with the original topic and will create more overall Google Juice™ since it has a more specific title
Even the implicit nudge to discuss it amongst the community is a good one.
There’s a whole book about this if you’re interested @vegabomb. I have plenty of other reading recommendations as well if you’d like to delve into it more!