I sometimes find myself reading comments without reading the article. When I do this I usually find half the arguments conflicting with one another, this usuall

I sometimes find myself reading comments without reading the article. When I do this I usually find half the arguments conflicting with one another, this usually causes me to go read the article. After that, it is usually very obvious that most people did not read the article and are commenting based on the title. They asked questions that are clearly answered in the article, make a completely unrelated comment because the thought the article was about something else, or they will make a statement that is disproven in the article. This type of stuff is hard to police, and I find myself guilty of it. I would say HN is streets ahead of anywhere else in this regard(Facebook, Twitter, Reddit... ), but it still happens quite a bit and it definitely detracts from the interesting discussions that sometimes happen. These interesting discussions are often better than the articles themselves, so I will continue to wade through the mindless dribble to find these bright spots.