IMO, as far as comments go, if I got a comment that was that length? I'd think it's long and be perfectly happy. A lot of people just aren't good at extended tl;dr gushing, and that's okay. That doesn't mean they're bad or mediocre commenters. Many people are capable of leaving absolutely lovely comments without needing a full comment or more.
Something like "Ooh, I liked this, your descriptions are lovely, thank you" would be a short and relatively unsatisfying comment, but a 2-4 paragraph comment is perfectly capable of containing a good description of what the reader specifically liked about your story. Especially if the story is under 5k words long.
IDK, I feel like every year the standards for what a "good comment" is go up and now you need to leave a detailed line-by-line analysis of the story or certain writers won't consider you worth their time.
Re: Ways in which you are petty
Something like "Ooh, I liked this, your descriptions are lovely, thank you" would be a short and relatively unsatisfying comment, but a 2-4 paragraph comment is perfectly capable of containing a good description of what the reader specifically liked about your story. Especially if the story is under 5k words long.
IDK, I feel like every year the standards for what a "good comment" is go up and now you need to leave a detailed line-by-line analysis of the story or certain writers won't consider you worth their time.