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I'll admit, sometimes I skim posts and go straight to the comments on HN. Sometimes I find the discussion here to be more scintillating than the link itself.
by oacgnol 15y ago
I'll admit, sometimes I skim posts and go straight to the comments on HN. Sometimes I find the discussion here to be more scintillating than the link itself.
- lawn 15y agoSometimes I spend more time reading the comments than the post itself, I've even caught myself reading the comments but not the post!
- jonnathanson 15y agoI think it's a wholly legitimate thing to do, and it requires no apology. I do it all the time. Pretty much every time I come across a new link here, I rapidly and subconsciously run a few checks on it before clicking it open: 1) Is the title relevant to my interests? 2) How many upvotes has it received? 3) How many comments has it received? 4) (Upon scanning comments) Are the comments interesting? The only problem with this method is that it can tempt you to reply to comments without actually having read the article in question. That's bad form, of course.