Ask HN: Do you read comments of an HN post before actually reading the article?

Whenever I find an HN article which is about a topic I'm interested in but the article itself is too long for me to read at that moment, I generally go to the comments to see the community's reaction to the article. In these moments I base my own opinion on just the title of the article. Does anyone else do this? I'm geniunely curious if there are other HNers out there that also go through this thought process.