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I'm not sure if comments that plainly ignore the main points of the article are totally, or even mostly, from people before they've even read it. They may be f
by epi0Bauqu 19y ago
I'm not sure if comments that plainly ignore the main points of the article are totally, or even mostly, from people before they've even read it. They may be from people who just don't get it, whether from skimming or not paying close enough attention.
And I don't see how filtering out replies to subcomments solves anything. Often those are the most interesting conversations. I suppose one could have +/- to expand subcomments easily.
- DaniFong 19y agoIt's precisely because I'm unsure about this that I want to look at the data. I apologize for the ambiguity -- I didn't mean to suggest removing the ability to subcomment, only that the data I want is the proportion of people commenting on an article before reading or rapidly after their first click -- and whether that proportion is changing substantially.
- Alex3917 19y agoI post comments all the time that have nothing to do with the main point of the article. That doesn't mean I haven't read it. Usually it just means the article reminded me of something that I thought other people would find useful.
- DaniFong 19y agoBut this behavior wouldn't trigger my alarms unless it's changing in magnitude over time for lots of different people. Whereas, I fear a portion of our new users do this on a fairly regular basis -- which would show an increase in the 'commented before read proportion'. Is this actually happening? I'm not sure.