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Mostly and I’ve been wondering why. I think there are 2 main components: 1) I know comments loads fast. It’s a crapshoot when a webpage is done loading all its
by wodenokoto 5y ago
Mostly and I’ve been wondering why. I think there are 2 main components:
1) I know comments loads fast. It’s a crapshoot when a webpage is done loading all its modals and stuff - or if it’s just super slow. HN is fast.
2) I am pretty sure that comments are straight to the point. No scrolling and skimming through paragraphs to find when the part of the article related to the headline begins. No scrolling up and down in an inavigable twitter thread trying to figure out what the hell the context is.
You usually get all this from the first HN pundit explaining everything wrong with the article.
- promplopp 5y agoI agree. But of course, whether or not an internet commenter read the article or knows what they’re talking about is also a crapshoot, and HN isn’t an exception to that rule. Especially if they’re rushing to “correct” some minor/irrelevant point in the article, or even an unrelated thing they inferred from the title. I’ve noticed it happening often enough to question how often I failed to notice.
- elliekelly 5y agoI always thought it would be interesting for sites like HN and Reddit to give more weight to comments from people who have clicked the link. I suppose that would be exploited for “influence” as soon as it was made public that it wouldn’t really add much.
- krapp 5y agoClicking the link doesn't mean anyone actually read the content. Unfortunately, there isn't any way to engineer intellectual curiosity in software. If there were, I'm sure dang would have pushed the patch by now.
- eklitzke 5y agoFor most posts the top comment will be a complete non sequitur reaction based purely on the headline of the post. For example, if the post is about C++ the top comment is often some knee jerk comment about Rust or OO or something, even if the article has nothing to do with Rust or OO.
- opportune 5y agoYes or it will be the same rehashed HN talking points about Google/Facebook, why algo interviews suck, complaining about pay. I wish the HN rules were a little less explicit about not being able to ask “Did you even read the article?”. I’ve seen some absolute garbage articles get to the front page and create a big discussion based solely on the title. I try to always read the article before commenting but I do agree with other posters that for casual browsing I often skip the article because I don’t want to deal with web-bullshit in 2022, whereas HN loads fast and doesn’t ask me to sign up for a newsletter/enable notifications/read a bunch of SEO nonsense. I wouldnt mind if HN used outbound links to track pageloads of links and use that to gate/affect ranking of comments and upvotes, but most people probably think that’s going too far.
- fragmede 5y ago1.a) Especially considering the lack of advertising (especially on mobile) making for a consistent experience between the headline vs the comments.