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The questions now is where are people from that wouldn't answer this? I'm sure the lurker factor is different per location.
by mihaic 5y ago
The questions now is where are people from that wouldn't answer this? I'm sure the lurker factor is different per location.
- rytill 5y agoThere must be another category "voter" in between commenter and lurker. Content creator > Commenter > Voter > Lurker I wonder what percentage of users vote frequently but don't comment.
- Anthony-G 5y agoI like the concept of voters being an intermediate category between producers/writers and consumers/readers. However, I’d argue that, on Hacker News, the commenters are the actual “content creators” of the HN “community”. It’s easy to submit a URL while it takes substantially more effort (time and thought) to make a useful contribution to an interesting discussion (though submitters are necessary to kick-start the discussions).
- gojomo 5y agoIndeed, it could be interesting to make a heatmap based on explicit responses, then another based on HN's internal IP logs (w/ the clunky geo IP deductions that can be made from that), to see if there's any areas of large divergence – then hypothesize if those are more due to: - selective propensity-to-respond-to-poll - misleading geo IP data - other software-agents/traffic-drivers/usage-differences (eg: some areas/cultures skim headlines once a day, others get deep in the comments)