Tone of Voice — pick one: Appreciative, Casual, Engaging, Formal, Friendly, Humorous,
Insightful, Inspirational, Professional, or Supportive.Comment Type decides what the comment is doing, which matters more than tone. Switch
between System and Custom; the system types are:
Agree
Answer
Celebrate
Challenge
Criticism
Default
Discuss
Experience
Feedback
Funny
Gratitude
Insight
Network
Question
Stats/Facts
Default is the neutral choice. The others are worth using deliberately — Question and
Experience start conversations, Agree and Celebrate mostly don’t.Custom Instructions is free text applied to every comment. This does more for quality
than tone and type combined, because it’s where you rule things out:
strictly do not mention author..
Write one short LinkedIn comment under 20 words.
Comment Length is a range — a shortest and a longest, in words. No of Comments
sets how many drafts you get to choose from, up to five.Underneath sit five switches:
Add Emojis
Makes comments more lively
Mention Author
Tags the post author automatically
Use Post Language
Matches the language the original post was written in
Use Content Library
Lets your saved material inform the comment
Quality Mode
Sharper comments, a few seconds slower
Short is better. A twenty-word comment that says one real thing outperforms a paragraph
that restates the post — and the paragraph is what reads as automated.
Mention Author tags someone in every comment you post. On a handful that’s normal. At
volume it’s the behavior that gets people muted, and it’s the one switch here with a
cost you can’t take back.
The same idea for direct messages: tone, type, and instructions for what a DM should say.
The type list is longer — sixteen of them, from Acknowledgment and Apologize through
Follow-Up, Gratitude and Scheduling.
Two differences from comments worth knowing. Message Length is a single target rather
than a range, so you set one number and not a span. And Mention Recipient is on by
default, which for a DM is right — using someone’s name in a message you sent them
deliberately is normal, in a way that tagging them publicly is not.Treat these more conservatively than comments. A comment is public and mildly social; an
unsolicited DM is in someone’s inbox, and gets judged accordingly.
System types are the ones Depost AI ships. Custom is where you keep your own, and it’s
the setting that does the most work over time.A style is a named way of replying that you save once and reuse. Not a one-off instruction:
a thing you pick from a list, the way you’d pick Question or Insight.
Switch Comment Type to Custom, press + Add style, and describe how you want that
kind of reply written. It joins the list and stays there.Messages work the same way, under Message Type → Custom, and this is where they earn
their keep. A DM has more repeatable shapes than a comment does — a first connection, a
follow-up after a call, a link to something you promised:
Name a style after the situation, not the tone. First time connection and Follow-up
after a call tell you which to pick a month from now. Friendly and Casual don’t, and
tone is already its own setting.
This is the point of saving them. Open the extension on a post and your saved styles are
there under Your Styles, next to System: Default:
Everything you set in the dashboard is mirrored here — tone, length, emojis, mention,
quality mode — so you can override any of it for one comment without changing your
defaults.Add Your Perspective is the box that matters. It’s what you actually think about this
specific post, in your words, and it’s the difference between a reply that could have been
written about anything and one that could only have been written about this. Use
perspective only takes it further: your point, and nothing else generated around it.
A saved style plus a generated comment with no perspective added is how people end up
sounding like a bot politely. The style decides the shape. You still have to bring the
thought.
