Reading articles online in social media has evolved into social and collaborative effort where most people don't have to read the article itself. HOWTO for (de

Reading articles online in social media has evolved into social and collaborative effort where most people don't have to read the article itself. HOWTO for (de facto) collaborative and delegated reading in the social media: 1/ You can upvote and comment articles based on the title without reading the article itself. If the subject is interesting, you agree with the title or you want to know more, upvote. When the article gains enough popularity and attention, the collaborative reading happens in three batches of comments. 2/ First batch of comments is from people who didn't read the article but want to say something or steer the discussion. They either use the title as writing cue to write what they think, or try to guess the article content and comment on it. 3/ Second batch is comments to the first batch from those who skimmed the article and correct the misconceptions the first batch of commenters had and provide information from the article. 4/ Third batch of comments comes from those who read the article or are subject experts or both. They correct the first and second batch comments and even correct errors in the original article. Sometimes the third batch never happens and the quality of the community reading suffers.