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Reading the comments here, I am having a total Slashdot throwback moment. Did anybody actually read TFA? Most of the replies I am seeing here seem to have trea

Reading the comments here, I am having a total Slashdot throwback moment. Did anybody actually read TFA? Most of the replies I am seeing here seem to have treated the article's title as a writing prompt. Read the whole article friends - it's got a nice amount of nuance and the author unpacks what they mean by "difficult" very well.

mettamage 3y ago
I feel quite a lot of people on HN simply react to the titles and that's it. Many people on HN also only read the comments. I know I do. I also sometimes read the post, it really depends.
- squigz 3y ago
  I do the same. I'm not really here for the articles - they're secondary - but for the excellent discussions by the community
  - szundi 3y ago
    Same here but when I comment, I check out the article
    - mcmoor 3y ago
      This is why I rarely comment but instead reply. At least usually I've read the full text of the comment that I replied to
  - prerok 3y ago
    I also do that most of the time but the title was so off I just had to take a look. I was pleasantly surprised, very thoughtful and fully recommend reading it in its entirety.
- rldjbpin 3y ago
  this. i am in that camp, but i mostly read and not comment like others mentioned. i find that most people commenting still have gone through the post.
angarg12 3y ago
I remember reading analysis showing that there is a high correlation between the order that comments are posted and how many votes they get, i.e. early comments tend to get most voted. I guess people are gaming the system by commenting quickly. Who has time to read a 10 min article and comment when you can not read it and post a platitude?
- deleted 3y ago
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- iraqmtpizza 3y ago
  Or people could learn to be based and redpilled like me and not karma-whore
- mettamage 3y ago
  I don’t think that’s it. When I comment early, it is not to game the system. It’s to kick start a discussion around the title. Or I am intrigued about something by the title and then it’s fun to go on a bit of a tangent. I also appreciate it that a submission with a small amount of upvotes has a discussion going.
nhatcher 3y ago
Off topic. I didn't know what TFA was so I googled. It didn't help (a cursory search). So I asked chatgpt, that helped. The Full Article. I, of course, knew what you meant.
- pjerem 3y ago
  Oh, i was thinking about another f word.
  - terr-dav 3y ago
    That is more consistent with RTFM: read the f-ing manual, which I assume came before RTFA.
  - mcmoor 3y ago
    Of course ChatGPT will not answer the true f
    - pjerem 3y ago
      Thank you. btw, I didn’t read TFA. Will do
- asalahli 3y ago
  I genuinely thought it meant The Fucking Article until now (like RTFM)
  - layer8 3y ago
    It does. Don’t believe everything ChatGTP says.
- layer8 3y ago
  ChatGPT is wrong. The F stands for Fucking, Freaking, or (more politely) Fine. There’s RTFA like RTFM. Amusingly, https://www.google.de/search?q=what+does+tfa+mean https://www.google.de/search?q=what+does+tfa+mean shows https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756 as the first hit for me.

mettamage 3y ago

I feel quite a lot of people on HN simply react to the titles and that's it. Many people on HN also only read the comments. I know I do. I also sometimes read the post, it really depends.

squigz 3y ago
I do the same. I'm not really here for the articles - they're secondary - but for the excellent discussions by the community
- szundi 3y ago
  Same here but when I comment, I check out the article
  - mcmoor 3y ago
    This is why I rarely comment but instead reply. At least usually I've read the full text of the comment that I replied to
- prerok 3y ago
  I also do that most of the time but the title was so off I just had to take a look. I was pleasantly surprised, very thoughtful and fully recommend reading it in its entirety.
rldjbpin 3y ago
this. i am in that camp, but i mostly read and not comment like others mentioned. i find that most people commenting still have gone through the post.

angarg12 3y ago

I remember reading analysis showing that there is a high correlation between the order that comments are posted and how many votes they get, i.e. early comments tend to get most voted. I guess people are gaming the system by commenting quickly. Who has time to read a 10 min article and comment when you can not read it and post a platitude?

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iraqmtpizza 3y ago
Or people could learn to be based and redpilled like me and not karma-whore
mettamage 3y ago
I don’t think that’s it. When I comment early, it is not to game the system. It’s to kick start a discussion around the title. Or I am intrigued about something by the title and then it’s fun to go on a bit of a tangent. I also appreciate it that a submission with a small amount of upvotes has a discussion going.

nhatcher 3y ago

Off topic. I didn't know what TFA was so I googled. It didn't help (a cursory search). So I asked chatgpt, that helped. The Full Article. I, of course, knew what you meant.

pjerem 3y ago
Oh, i was thinking about another f word.
- terr-dav 3y ago
  That is more consistent with RTFM: read the f-ing manual, which I assume came before RTFA.
- mcmoor 3y ago
  Of course ChatGPT will not answer the true f
  - pjerem 3y ago
    Thank you. btw, I didn’t read TFA. Will do
asalahli 3y ago
I genuinely thought it meant The Fucking Article until now (like RTFM)
- layer8 3y ago
  It does. Don’t believe everything ChatGTP says.
layer8 3y ago
ChatGPT is wrong. The F stands for Fucking, Freaking, or (more politely) Fine. There’s RTFA like RTFM. Amusingly, https://www.google.de/search?q=what+does+tfa+mean https://www.google.de/search?q=what+does+tfa+mean shows https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756 as the first hit for me.