See which comments bring buyers back

The Comments page (/comments) shows which of your comments on other people’s posts got an answer, which pulled qualified buyers back to you, and under whose posts your comments work best. Each comment opens as a conversation: the post, what you wrote, and everyone who replied or reacted.

Before you start

The page reads what the Your profile agent collects from your comments, so it needs your own profile on the Watchlist. Without your profile there, the top bar shows Add your profile, which opens Agents (/agents) with the New agent dialog open on Add your profile; Back shows the other agents. On a plan that cannot add agents, it opens Agents without the dialog. With the agent, the top bar’s button is View comment leads, the leads list filtered to people found through your comments.

Read the page

The tiles count every comment, all time:

• Comments: how many of your comments Embers has read, on others’ posts.
• Got answers: how many of them got a reply or a reaction from someone else, with the total, for example “406 answers in all”.
• Comment leads: distinct people who answered and fit your ICP.
• Best conversation: the author under whose posts your comments brought the most leads, for example “31 leads from 1 comment”.

An answer is a reply or a reaction from someone else. Every count leaves out you, your teammates, employees of the profiles you watch, and anyone at a blocked company, the same people People who answered leaves out.

Three tabs split the list, each with its count:

The table lists your comments, one row each, with these columns:

Find a comment

1. Search

   Search your comments matches the text of your comments.

2. Change the order

   Select a column heading to sort by it: Commented (newest first, the default) or Answers (most first). Leads does not sort. On a phone the rows are cards, and the Sort by menu in the toolbar offers Newest, Most answers, and Highest lead rate.

   View at the end of the toolbar shows the comments as cards instead of a table on a wider screen: pick Cards to preview them on your own comments, then Apply cards to keep it, or Back to table (or Esc). The choice is yours on this page, in this browser. Cards have no column headings, so they sort from the Sort by menu.

3. Resize the columns

   Drag a column’s edge to resize it. Embers remembers the widths in this browser, and Reset widths appears in the toolbar once you have changed one.

4. Open it

   Select the row, or choose Open the conversation from its menu, to open the comment’s page. The menu also has Open on LinkedIn. The table pages 20 comments at a time with Previous and Next under it.

The tab, sort, search, and page are in the address, so a refresh, a shared link, or Back from a comment returns you to the same view.

A comment’s own page

Each comment opens at /comments/<id>; Comments in the top bar takes you back. The page reads like the thread on LinkedIn:

• The post you commented on, whose it was, when you commented, its topic, and View on LinkedIn. The post’s text is folded to three lines.
• Your comment, quoted in full.
• One line of numbers, for example “12 replies · 44 reactions · 14 leads”, or “No answers yet”.

Beside it on a wide screen, and under it on a smaller one, People who answered lists everyone who replied or reacted, 25 at a time. Choose Everyone or Leads to see only the people who match your ICP. Each row shows their photo, name, headline, whether they replied or reacted and when, and their fit. A reply is quoted in full, and when it says something that matters it is named: “a question”, “buying intent”, “a pain you solve”, or “speaks up for you”. You, your teammates, employees of the profiles you watch, and anyone at a blocked company are left out, so the list and the numbers above it always agree.

Selecting a row opens the lead’s full page. Reply opens it at the message drafter, so you can draft a message that picks up the conversation.

Troubleshooting

• “No comments match”. Nothing you wrote contains the search word. Clear the search to see every comment.
• “Couldn’t load your comments”. The request failed. Choose Try again.
• “No comments yet”. Embers has not read your comments yet. The first scan can take a few minutes; see pause an agent and read its scan history to check its last run.
• “Track the comments you leave”. Your own profile is not on the Watchlist yet, so nothing reads your comments. Choose Add your profile, or add it on the Watchlist.
• “No answers yet”. None of your comments has a reply or a reaction yet. See all 99 comments shows every comment, and Quiet shows the ones still waiting.
• A comment has answers but no leads. Nobody who answered cleared your ICP. Open the comment and choose Everyone to see who did answer.
• “Comment not found”. Embers cannot find that comment in the workspace you have open. Check the workspace in the sidebar, or choose Back to comments.

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