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> I gather a lot more useful information lurking the comments I don't know if it's a good thing or not, but I've definitely gotten into the habit of opening th
by jedimastert 5y ago
> I gather a lot more useful information lurking the comments
I don't know if it's a good thing or not, but I've definitely gotten into the habit of opening the comments of a post before the link itself.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoConsidering the prevalence of clickbait, it is an effective way to prevent wasting time if someone has already identified it.
- jedimastert 5y agoIt definitely catches a lot of clickbait, but there's a lot of false positives if the post goes against the hivemind
- mellavora 5y agoAs an old slashdot user, I've almost never done anything else :)
- jasondigitized 5y ago+1 on this. All the good stuff is in the comments.
- gnulinux 5y agoIt's a bad habit since it encourages commenting before reading the submission. But I do the same thing as well, and it's not clear to me how someone could do otherwise without spending extraordinary time on HN. I find HN a very valuable source, so scanning some amount of comments is more important to me than reading all the submissions.