Whether or not I read the comments is strongly correlated with how technical the subject is. My general process goes: - View an interesting-sounding title in m

Whether or not I read the comments is strongly correlated with how technical the subject is. My general process goes: - View an interesting-sounding title in my RSS reader - Click on the link to the HN comments - Scan the top comments to see if the article is clickbait/insubstantial - If it is not, read the article - Either return to HN and read most/all of the comments or close both tabs, depending on the subject I rarely find the comments on political links here particularly useful or informative, but I've derived a tremendous amount of value from the conversation on technical links.