This one resonates, because it's largely how I comment on PRs too!

One thing not mentioned is how important it is to acknowledge the comments too. People are taking their time to review your PR, and not even giving a reaction will make the commenter question whether or not it was even received. I'm not looking to throw my thoughts out into the aether. That's what microblogging platforms are for!

I can't tell you how many times I got no response/acknowledgement on a comment that actually surfaced something critical. I haven't been keeping track, but I think my comments could have prevented dozens of outages at this point. It's quite exhausting. In my own experience, the worst offenders of this are senior devs.

> Why approve, if I’ve left comments that I think are worth implementing? > > Because I trust my team. I know that my comments will be considered, and if they’re useful, implemented.

I do this a lot too. It's critical that PR authors don't burn that trust either. If they make substantial changes that warrant another review, I hope they do request it. Too many times in my career have colleagues just went ahead and made bad changes after my approval that I would have easily caught, merge, and things go

High trust, high alignment environments move so fast, and you know when you're in one and know when you have your colleagues' trust. It feels really good!