I check the top comments first because a lot of times they make me realize the article is not worth reading. Sometimes the top comment is a one-line tl;dr, or j

I check the top comments first because a lot of times they make me realize the article is not worth reading. Sometimes the top comment is a one-line tl;dr, or just explains clickbait. This is even more important for any news regarding science: there's always a comment from someone who actually read the paper and then explains what the article got wrong.