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> Folks really do come to HN to read the articles and then maybe get drawn into a discussion. based on the number of comments i see that are oblivious to the a
by parpfish 1y ago
> Folks really do come to HN to read the articles and then maybe get drawn into a discussion.
based on the number of comments i see that are oblivious to the actual content of the articles, i'm pretty sure the user flow is "Folks come to HN to read headlines and have a conversation, and then maybe get drawn into reading an article"
- WarOnPrivacy 1y agoThose comments can't reflect people who are drawn in by the article but don't engage. Upvotes hint it is a significant number. Past that, I don't see non-reading commenters being a dominant presence. Some topics draw a few more than normal but that's the worst of it.
- Karrot_Kream 1y agoReally? I feel like P(didn't read the article | wrote a comment) to be quite high personally. Any thread with > 100 comments seems to be full of these posters.