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There's no reason to believe that lurkers have substantially different behavior than commenters. More likely is that those who use firefox are more passionate a
by bosswipe 6y ago
There's no reason to believe that lurkers have substantially different behavior than commenters. More likely is that those who use firefox are more passionate and informed about browser issues.
- anm89 6y agoLurking is a substantially different behavior than posting.
- Zak 6y agoCommenters by definition have substantially different behavior than lurkers: they comment. Furthermore, people tend to be louder about things they perceive as threats, such as corporations dominating the internet. Those who comment about those threats are likely to be the same ones taking active steps to mitigate them.
- pessimizer 6y agoCommenters are extreme outliers. Only a tiny single-digit percentage of forum readers online ever comment. HN is also a highly regarded, particularly alienating site with a strict tone expected from commenters. I'd imagine the ratio of lurkers to commenters is 100:1.
- SpecialistEMT 6y agoI imagine the ratio is even smaller. HN is a often a particularly uninviting place to comment on.
- phist_mcgee 6y agoNo it isn't you are incorrect. I now present my essay on why you are incorrect. Now we argue for hours on semantic differences and then call it a draw. And then dang shows up and gets mad that the comments aren't following the rules shown on that really, really ugly and vague faq guidelines page.
- bosswipe 6y agoWow this comment is getting downvoted a lot. I think I wasn't clear with what I meant. What I meant is that there's no reason to believe that lurkers have big difference in which browser they use.