What percentage of the articles that Interest You do you read in full?
Updated: As requested, I added HN Comments as a choice.
Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read?
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Re: Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read?
#2I probably read 50% of the articles in full, another 25% about 3 or 4 paragraphs, and the remainder I read the first paragraph or just skim.
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#3I generally vote up anything I click on to read and everything I open I read in full. Normally out of 30 links I will only open 5 or 6.
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#4I do this the Slashdot way; I don't read the articles at all. =P
(More accurately, I always read the comments here first on any title that looks interesting. If there's a good, heady discussion going, I'll go back and read the article after reading all the comments. If there's < 5 comments, I won't read the article at all.)
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#5It isn't so much that I don't care to read the articles, it is that there is just so much that I ignore most of it as to not be overwhelmed.
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#6It obviosuly depends: if it's really interesting to me I read it in full. If it's interesting, but not really so much, then I read the first paragraphs and then skip over the rest. It also depends how the articles are written.
I've read EJs blog posts in full for example.
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#7This poll should have so many more options.
Every day it changes. Some days I'll read only 3 articles all day, but in full.
Tomorrow, I'll read about 20% of 5 articles.
Last week, maybe I read about 50% of 30 articles.
It's based on the content, the timing, the quality of the article, the source, the bias, the topic, etc.
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#8Depends on the day. On days when I'm both not at a consulting site and don't hit flow early in the day, I'll cop to "all of them that I find interesting, and some of the ones that I might not but which had good comments."
Re: Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read?
#9How about an analysis of "what interests you"? Often I use the comments to determine if an article would be interesting to read/skim.
Re: Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read?
#100% really, I mostly just read the submission title and the comments.