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Meta: Require users to open a link to enable upvoting and comments
Sometimes I'll comment or upvote without even opening a link, just based off the title of the post. This isn't good and I'm sure there are others that do the same thing.
I know this wouldn't guarantee people actually read the content linked to, but it should help to encourage that.
- 0942v8653 9y agoI would be concerned about links like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10920180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10920180 … if you want to do this for yourself only you could easily make a browser extension. The other issue is that HN will effectively have to store every link you click on the site. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with knowing that is stored.
- aaossa 9y agoMaybe enable voting only while viewing an item could work, to ensure that the reader at least saw the discussion or description.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoThere are plenty of circumstances under which it is possible to contribute in a meaningful way to the discussion without reading the article. If you are failing to participate in a good way, no mod hacks can force you to do so. This is a personal issue. You need to find some means to solve it for yourself. Clicking on something doesn't make you read it. Asking the mods to force you to click isn't a cure for what ails you.
- zer00eyz 9y agoI recently made a comment on something where I already knew I didn't care what the article said, I just wanted to read the comments because I knew THOSE would be more interesting than the article. I did have a valuable reaction to add to one of said comments and did as much. Sometimes it is more about the conversation than the content.