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Since most people select the link before commenting to at least see the page, take a timestamp between that selection and comment time for that IP. Based on the
by hindsightbias 6y ago
Since most people select the link before commenting to at least see the page, take a timestamp between that selection and comment time for that IP. Based on the length of the article and average reading time, make them wait.
Speed readers can spend more time ruminating, since they are probably thinking too fast also.
- kerkeslager 6y agoThe implementation of collecting the length of the article is prohibitively complex and error-prone.
- hindsightbias 6y agoIf there’s no way to accurately scrape by article today, sounds like a need for a startup.
- kerkeslager 6y agoI think for most possible clients it would be a solution in search of a problem. Even for Hacker News, I'm not sure how it would actually work out, so if I were HN I wouldn't be willing to invest much in it.
- muzani 6y ago"Thinking too fast" applies more to things that the person is unfamiliar with. If someone made me read an article on spiders, I would need to take a long time to read it, but an arachnologist may already be familiar with it. But if there was a topic on say, the Schachter-Singer Theory of Emotion messing with emotional recognition algorithms (which I wrote a thesis on), a good portion of that article would be literature review on the flaws of existing solutions and why the theory helps. Most people are unfamiliar and may misunderstand the article. I could fully speed read such a topic in less than a minute and see if it brings anything new, and then answer the comments with things that even the author may have left out.