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also known as the "one percent rule" - 90% of people passively view content, 9% comment on content, 1% create (i've written on it here and how it does favor cr
by swyx 4y ago
also known as the "one percent rule" - 90% of people passively view content, 9% comment on content, 1% create
(i've written on it here and how it does favor creators https://www.swyx.io/puwtpd#why-does-this-work-on-them https://www.swyx.io/puwtpd#why-does-this-work-on-them )
- Jensson 4y agoI don't think that 10% comments, the numbers I remember are 10% votes and 1% comments. And looking at some random topics it seems to be roughly there, 10% comments is way too high.
- omega3 4y agoI'd go further than this and say out of that 1% who create content further 99% shouldn't.
- lytefm 4y agoI'd suppose that on a personal level and for HN, activity also changes with experience. I've been passively reading HN for a few years as a junior dev after my team lead introduced the site to my before even creating an account. I've been making comments on a few topics of interest now and then in the past three years. Since a few months I feel like "yeah, I should probably write some docs + blog posts" which might be interesting to other HN readers. I've also noticed that some HN users write a lot of comments to any kind of post whereas others mainly commment on articles related to their are of expertise.