posting this again.
>Tone it down on the empty compliments.
>You can only call someone “cute” so many times before the word loses all meaning. A lot of the people in this community might have low self-esteem (by their own admission) but spamming compliments will do nothing for them past a certain point.
>You’re just forcing them to conform to your opinion of them, rather than letting them build themselves up through their own efforts and giving them positive affirmation when they need it. Even if you were to swap one compliment for another, the impact will be severely lessened if you already showered that person with praise. There are appropriate and inappropriate compliments, but there's also appropriate and inappropriate times to make them.
>There are even those who become uncomfortable when they receive too much praise. That might be funny to you in a “Oh, they’re just flustered" type of way, but they may not feel the same. So use them sparingly.