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One question I ask myself now before commenting is: Will this comment significantly improve this conversation? I try not to comment if the comment is merely:
by revorad 16y ago
One question I ask myself now before commenting is: Will this comment significantly improve this conversation?
I try not to comment if the comment is merely:
1. clever and amusing
2. expressing anger/disagreement
3. disproving a wrong but unimportant claim made by another commenter.
Besides these, submitting, upvoting, downvoting, not voting and flagging are enough to make HN more interesting for myself.
- uxp 16y agoI find myself writing comments fairly often, but end up pausing before I hit the reply button to re-read what I'm replying to and to think if my comment is actually contributing to the discussion. A good percentage of the time, I just end up closing the window. I may have good intentions to begin with, but if what I say reads as being one of the three points you wrote, there's no point in having other people argue against my invalid or ignorant claim. It just leads to semantical flame wars.
- billswift 16y agoMe too. But the worst thing about commenting here is how all the context that you are replying to goes away and you can't re-read your comment within the context of the discussion, because all you can see is the immediate comment you are directly responding to. Interestingly, this is the only site I comment on that has that behavior.
- kevinskii 16y agoI also try to stop myself from saying the same things that others have already said--i.e. "piling on."
- kabuks 16y agoIsn't that a pile on comment itself?