A Theory on Hacker News
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A Theory on Hacker News
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#2"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting"
I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
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#3"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting" I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
I started out by reading the sites directly, but the comments here are so good that I frequently go to the comments first and read them. I also tend to not read stories that have been upvoted but received no comments.
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#4"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting" I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
I started out by reading the sites directly, but the comments here are so good that I frequently go to the comments first and read them. I also tend to not read stories that have been upvoted but received no comments.
Those are often the most though-provoking ones.
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#5What I like about Hacker News is that its 100% abstracted from the actual websites - and also that it's verrrry minimalist.
Can't quite put my finger on it, but for some reason it just doesn't feel right to couple the content with the feed (IMHO)
Also, I like HN just the way it is!
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#6"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting" I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
Indeed. I use the hnsort greasemonkey script to sort by # of comments (and often by # of points), and look first at those new items that seem to have provoked notable discussion.
I then read the comments, and use that to decide if the article itself is worth looking at.
There's a lot to read out there, so some triaging is needed.
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#7"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting" I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
I would of loved to add comments in there, but there is no way of getting them barring html scrapping.
HN Feature Request: RSS feed for comments of an item.
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#8"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting" I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
I click on the comments link, and then the link to the article. That way, if I think the content warrants reading commentary, I just hit back instead of having to search the page again for the link.
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#9The implementation here is nice and I like the GUI, but you might piss off content creators. Scraping the content and displaying it on your own site is worse than the DiggBar.
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#10"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting" I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
In fact, I wish the link in my google gadget went to the comments page first and not the submitted link.