For the newer people on Farcaster:

These types of replies aren't useful. Better to use a like than a reply.

I get that 1) people are excited / trying to be friendly and 2) not everyone's first language is English. However, low effort replies will eventually start to hurt your account's visibility on Farcaster.

Why do you or other people on Farcaster have 1-word / short replies that don't get criticized?

Ah! It's OK to have 1-word / short replies if that's a small % of your overall casting. If you have many high effort casts (and engagement is a good proxy for effort most of the time), then OK to have a few short ones too