[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Do you read articles on HN before reading/wr...
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Ask HN: Do you read articles on HN before reading/writing comments?
I've heard a couple of times of people who, when they see a
interesting submission here open the comments first, then if it
seems interesting, reads the article after. And recently, I started
thinking that if some people do that, is it not also possible that
people are commenting without opening the article, just based on
the HN title? How do you usually interact with the submissions
here on HN?
Author : capableweb
Score : 11 points
Date : 2021-03-10 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
| baxtr wrote:
| No. I go the the comment section first and then decide if the
| article is read-worthy.
| fsflover wrote:
| This should have been a poll.
| capableweb wrote:
| I've tried a couple of times to do polls but polls seem to not
| be popular / be penalized by the forum software, so skipped
| that this time.
| lostfocus wrote:
| I didn't even read your text and just reply to the question in
| the title. So: no.
| mattharney wrote:
| For better or worse, I am here for the comments.
| jakub_g wrote:
| Regardless of everything, I always start by clicking the comments
| link on front page, and I end up reading either the comments or
| comments + article.
|
| Often I read the comments first. Sometimes you can glance over
| the comments and if all the comments say "it's not like this" I
| will probably skip the article.
|
| Also there's surprisingly huge amount of knowledge and anecdotes
| in the comments, and often they have higher information density.
|
| Unfortunately each day I click 3x more links on HN than I have
| time to read through, so I don't always end up reading the
| article (which ends up in an ever-growing to-read list)
| jdlshore wrote:
| I usually start with the comments. So many sites are dumpster
| fires of ads and/or trivial observations stretched out into blog-
| length essays. I want to know if the article will be worth my
| time/hassle before clicking through.
|
| If I'm replying to a comment that isn't directly about the
| article, I may not read the article first. If I'm making a
| comment about the article, I read it carefully. But I don't often
| comment about the article. :-)
| pasttense01 wrote:
| "dumpster fires of ads"
|
| I assumed most readers here use Ublock Origin or comparable
| software to weed out most ads.
|
| Yes, I generally read the articles first.
| joshxyz wrote:
| Yeh except on mobile phone theres no way out of the ads lol
| Strom wrote:
| Apple phones have ad blocking, at least in the browser.
| Isn't there something for Android?
|
| Although yes ads are still an issue inside apps.
| vanni wrote:
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-
| origin...
| Jarwain wrote:
| I've yet to find a good solution on the chrome app on my
| phone, which is where I do most of my reading
| sbacic wrote:
| I almost always read the top comment (and possibly some of the
| follow-ups) before reading the article. I rarely comment as I
| rarely feel like it's worth it (in other words, I don't think my
| comments could improve the discussion, what with HN being a
| pretty "elite" community).
| dagmx wrote:
| I almost always read the comments first, to gauge whether the
| subject matter interests me.
|
| I'll always read the article first before contributing comments,
| unless I see a comment sub thread on an unrelated matter that I
| might have experience in.
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