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Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read?

23 pointsrichardofyork24 comments

What percentage of the articles that Interest You do you read in full?

Updated: As requested, I added HN Comments as a choice.

Depends 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."

I wish there was a way to see what stories you (and a few other HN members) found interesting. That would help me build out my weekly Hacker Newsletter!

But it should be optional for users to show or not to show their comments.

Or you could make scraper for saved stories, and ask few people you are interested in to scrap their stories.

With Patrick, you can do pretty well by just seeing what he's commenting on:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11

That's what I do, I have a script that basically generates an RSS feed of comments by people I find interesting and read the articles that they leave positive comments on.

Recently, I've ignored all stories that start with the word 'Why', have the word 'myths' in it or gives advice about what I should do in the title since they are almost always linkbait.

I wish I understood the motivations behind people posting linkbait, especially when the website being posted has no ads or anything on it. Is it just to gain karma?

This 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.

I 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.)

I 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.

Oof, not sure any of the options fit me well enough. Of those that interest me, I probably read about 80% in full, 15% I start reading, but find I'm not actually as interested as I thought, and the last 5% I might just look at the HN comments.

I usually (but not always) read the HN comments. Depending on my familiarity with the subject (based on the headline), I may read through the comments before reading the article. But I might not.

It depends on how busy my week is, but I tend to at least start reading everything that is of interest. Sometimes I don't finish them if they don't live up to what I was expecting and for certain stories I just read the comments as I might learn more from that.

With my side project (Hacker Newsletter), I tend to also read articles that, while not relevant to me, would be something that my subscriber base would find interesting.

I read it through the RSS feed at

http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A...

which includes the text of the article in the feed. So I read the ones that interest me right then and there, and then open the link to read the comments afterwards.

It 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.

I use Evernote to collect useful and interesting articles and links I see during weekdays to read them on weekend or when I have some free time. And clip to Evernote the full articles that I think will be useful someday.

It 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.

I 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.

How about an analysis of "what interests you"? Often I use the comments to determine if an article would be interesting to read/skim.

Interests: Startup, success, rants. Particularly how to get better job, better feature in TC, and $1-billion investor

You need some choices involving comments...

Yeah, I sometimes skim articles that cover familiar ground to see the authors take, then read most of the comments on HN.

I prefer the HN comments to the on-page comments for obvious reasons.

Request granted, I added a choice for HN Comments.

Start to tell somebody about a cool story I read on HN. Realize I only read the comments.

0% really, I mostly just read the submission title and the comments.

Updated with a choice for HN comments

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