I almost always read the article first unless it’s very long (e.g. a link to a free book.) Familiarity with the link makes the good comments better. It also mak

I almost always read the article first unless it’s very long (e.g. a link to a free book.) Familiarity with the link makes the good comments better. It also makes comments from people who haven’t read the article a lot more frustrating, though, and some of them are inevitably highly upvoted by others who didn’t bother to read.