Ask HN admins: How many people upvote a story, then click on it?

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I found myself upvoting a story due to its title, then clicking to open it.

I'm curious about two things: 1- How many people do that 2- What would happen if you stopped counting those clicks?

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Oh, to be clear: I'm asking the admins to look up the data, not polling the audience. Though doing so and then checking against the real data would be an interesting experiment on bias!

There is no data like that to look up. Clicking on a link to an external site does not generate any HTTP requests to HN that could be recorded. There are no scripts on this page that could be logging anything either. They can't tell if you've clicked a link before or after upvoting it.

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