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> If you watch carefully I thinks the problem; many browsers don't care to fact check, or even click through to the articles underneath. Indeed I just scroll t
by hacker_9 10y ago
> If you watch carefully
I thinks the problem; many browsers don't care to fact check, or even click through to the articles underneath. Indeed I just scroll through the list a few times throughout the day, and might click on anything that sounds interesting. But with the constant and obvious BS it all gets a bit tiresome. If there was an alternative site where they had rules in place to deal with the problem, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
- ethbro 10y agoImho, the comment visibility and ordering plays a critical role in this. It's pretty obvious first comments on HN that are generally upvotable tend to accumulate views, votes, and thereby become undisplacable from the top of the sort. In addition to drowning out lower comments as threads aren't collapsed. From a pure game perspective, not reading the article / skimming and posting a comment as quickly as possible strictly dominates reading the article, if you're optimizing for karma.