TechEcho

By the time an article's in the top 10 on HN there's already lots of comments.I'll skim the first 20%, assuming the best stuff is at the top. But many times I'll see busy, smart people like PG inserting commentary on stuff that's below the bottom half.Do busy people read everything even when a lot of it is junk?What are your comment reading strategies?

I bookmark some of the top people and scan their stuff at my leisure.For example: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg</a>

Skimming is a helpful reading skill. But personally I usually tend to wait for a thread to mature enough, it weeds out the noise from the signal.

HN is the one place that I like to read entire comment strings. If I find a comment to be junk, I will generally pass it up immediately.

I usually skim all the comments, spending more time reading ones that are interesting.

I bookmark some of the top people and scan their stuff at my leisure.For example: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg</a>

Skimming is a helpful reading skill. But personally I usually tend to wait for a thread to mature enough, it weeds out the noise from the signal.

HN is the one place that I like to read entire comment strings. If I find a comment to be junk, I will generally pass it up immediately.

I usually skim all the comments, spending more time reading ones that are interesting.

Ask HN: How do you quickly read and make comments on HN?

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Ask HN: How do you quickly read and make comments on HN?

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