LoL, if you are considering those few seconds for 50 claps a waste of valuable time, what do you think about writing an article about it? 🙃
I never looked at it from that perspective, but we all have a choice - to give one, ten, or fifty.
What difference does it make between a great article or an artist and their song. People clap for minutes (shouting ‘encore’) after a good song.
They could as well just clap once. But claps given have a certain meaning - a specific one to the giver, and a specific one to the receiver.
Like all things in life, it’s always on you to decide on how to mentally label it.