Show HN: Readsure – Pass a quiz that shows you read an article before commenting

I&#x27;m honestly more interested in the discussion then I am with the article in almost all occasions. Even if I don&#x27;t have any interest in the link I&#x27;ll still peruse the comments.<p>If you ask me, the whole point of an article is to spark a good discussion.

Brilliant, but it&#x27;ll never be widespread enough to make a meaningful difference.<p>Besides, nobody comments on websites directly any more. Now it all goes to Twitter or Facebook, and they&#x27;ll never implement anything like this because it&#x27;d be directly inimical to their business model.

This is not directly related to Readsure, but I&#x27;ve been thinking about comments becoming the main content. It&#x27;d be interested to see which percentage of people go directly to the comments in aggregators like reddit or hacker news. Even more interesting to me would be to see how many people would pass the quiz by reading only the comments. Sometimes the comment section is rich enough and can provide more information than the source itself if one has good inferring skills.

I think something like this is needed for elections. If you want to vote for someone, you have to pass a simple quiz to prove you know what they stand for.

I have had this idea - but my solution is different. The solution is that the time on site has to approximate the estimated reading time. Extra measure could be taking by tracking the scroll rate.

First of all: This is cool!<p>Can this be automated? That would be really sweet.<p>There is an xkcd[1] comic where instead of captchas, users have to supply valuable insights, thus solving the problem of trolls once and for all.<p>This might be first step towards such a solution.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;810&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;810&#x2F;</a>

I think this has a flaw. Considering that you will be presenting the end user with multiple options and the choice to only select one, the user can simply spend 4-5 seconds to select each option one by one until they get it right - Does not really verify that the end user indeed read the article

The correct answer is fixed on the last option. I don&#x27;t see how this proves anything.<p>if (ans == 4){ document.getElementById(&quot;question_right&quot;).style.display = &quot;block&quot;; } else { document.getElementById(&quot;question_wrong&quot;).style.display = &quot;block&quot;; }

Cool idea, but I feel like people will use it to make their comment section an echo chamber. For example, if your article is pro-hilary, you are asking Trump fans to acknowledge certain things you said about pro-hilary to be correct before they get to comment. And they mostly likely will not want to do this.

Didn&#x27;t want to waste my time reading this, but this kind of project should be considered harmful. &#x2F;s

It could be used to stop bots if nothing else, assuming there&#x27;s no technical way to post a comment having just the HTML of the page.

No you didn&#x27;t.<p>Social engineering: some guy reads it and then posts the answer to your question in the comments.

The internet is broken because of off-topic comments?

i tried until i got the right answer without reading anything :)

For crying out loud, please use labels for radio buttons - it makes them SO much less painful to select. I wish browsers would start flagging errors for this sort of thing.

We changed the title from “I fixed the Internet”. If anyone can suggest a better one, we can change it again.

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