> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.depost.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Comments and messages
> Set the tone, the comment type, and the instructions every reply is written to.
**Settings** on the Engagement screen controls how comments and messages are written by the
extension. Two tabs: **Comments** and **Messages**.
## Comments
**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.
## Messages
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.
## Custom styles
**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.
### They follow you onto LinkedIn
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.
## Getting this right
"Never open with 'Great post!'" does more than any tone setting.
Twenty to forty words is usually enough. Long comments read as automated.
*Question* and *Experience* start conversations. *Agree* and *Celebrate* mostly don't.
Assistance is for drafting faster, not for replying at a volume no person could.
## Related
Who these comments are aimed at.
Where these settings take effect.
The screen overall.
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