3 ms·
Same here. The comments are the gold. When panning for gold you have to filter through a bunch of stuff you're not interested in. Sorry, you're not going to fin
by taylodl 4y ago
Same here. The comments are the gold. When panning for gold you have to filter through a bunch of stuff you're not interested in. Sorry, you're not going to find gold every day and there's no motherlode to mine - unless you consider HN itself to be the motherlode - and you still have to mine! But those nuggets of gold can be extremely valuable when you find them!
- PebblesRox 4y agoAlso addictive; it's more exciting to read through the comments because of that chance of striking gold. Partway through an article, I tend to get bored and start skimming (or just stop reading) because I already have a pretty good idea of what I'm going to find in the rest of the piece. With comments, I never know what I'm going to find next, so I keep reading just in case I hit something good. Even really bad comments way down at the bottom can have good responses. I wish I didn't read in such an endorphin-seeking way, but functionally this is how it goes for me unless I put in a lot of deliberate effort to do otherwise. I like reading HN more than Reddit because the low bar for content is a lot higher. I don't encounter as much noxious waste in my search for the gold.