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I think people want to browse HN and not have to put much mental effort in, so more "news" articles are upvoted, commented on, etc.
by yellow_lead 5y ago
I think people want to browse HN and not have to put much mental effort in, so more "news" articles are upvoted, commented on, etc.
- krapp 5y agoMost people here don't read the articles, so there isn't much mental effort being put in either way.
- Kaibeezy 5y agoI think people do read the articles. For a while, I was adding a reply to most of my posts where I pulled in a key bit of the article and maybe made a brief comment. I thought this would be a good way to encourage discussion, but I was advised it could also steer the discussion, so probably better to keep it to a minimum. This I did, and while fewer posts gain critical mass without that condensation nucleus, it’s clear my best posts usually do end up going somewhere really interesting, and that the articles are definitely being read.
- the_lonely_road 5y agoI’m not interested in rust, or elixer, or Python or…the list keeps going and is much longer than the list of tech I am interested in. This means I’m unlikely to even grep the title of articles about some keyword specific to them let alone engage with them. I would assume a large number of if not a majority of tech readers are in the same boat. Better believe I’m clicking on any Ruby related articles and probably engaging further as well. Most people here are probably skipping over those same articles I’m engaging with. An article about Iran or Google is probably going to pull a big audience simply because it’s relevant to a wide audience of the readers here.