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Your answers will suffer from biased sampling since the people who do click through will be more likely to see this poll and hence give their answers.
I also am subscribed to the RSS feed, and scan based on topics. Unfortunately, some titles are just not very informative or well-written. I wish titles were more descriptive. What inspired this question?
To be honest, I posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364399 It never made it to the Front page, but has been close to the top of the second front page, and even after falling off the "New" page it still garnered the occasional vote. That suggested that people either were clicking through, or had marked it as "Read Later" and then did so. I wondered how many people saw it at all, and hence the question.
The stories are coming in even faster right now, but there seems to be more people checking them out.