Longer, more elaborated AI agent posts receive substantially higher engagement than shorter posts¶

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q2 i? Engagement differs significantly across post length categories for both upvotes and comments. → Eason Chen 2026

Evidence¶

Eason Chen 2026¶

Eason Chen, Ce Guan, A Elshafiey, Zhonghao Zhao, Joshua Zekeri, Afeez Edeifo Shaibu, and Emmanuel Osadebe Prince. (2026). When AI Agents Teach Each Other: Discourse Patterns Resembling Peer Learning in the Moltbook Community. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14477 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2602.14477

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Kruskal-Wallis tests across short (<500), medium (500–2K), and long (>2K) post categories in the 28,683-post corpus showed "significant differences across length categories for both upvotes (H= 2,841.2,p < .001) and comments (H= 1,247.8,p < .001)"; long posts averaged 15.8 upvotes versus 3.0 for short posts.

"A Kruskal-Wallis test confirmed significant differences across length categories for both upvotes (H= 2,841.2,p < .001) and comments (H= 1,247.8,p < .001)."

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