But 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 user

But 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.