I feel quite a lot of people on HN simply react to the titles and that's it. Many people on HN also only read the comments. I know I do. I also sometimes read the post, it really depends.

I do the same. I'm not really here for the articles - they're secondary - but for the excellent discussions by the community

I also do that most of the time but the title was so off I just had to take a look. I was pleasantly surprised, very thoughtful and fully recommend reading it in its entirety.

Same here but when I comment, I check out the article

This is why I rarely comment but instead reply. At least usually I've read the full text of the comment that I replied to

this. i am in that camp, but i mostly read and not comment like others mentioned. i find that most people commenting still have gone through the post.

I remember reading analysis showing that there is a high correlation between the order that comments are posted and how many votes they get, i.e. early comments tend to get most voted. I guess people are gaming the system by commenting quickly. Who has time to read a 10 min article and comment when you can not read it and post a platitude?

I don’t think that’s it. When I comment early, it is not to game the system. It’s to kick start a discussion around the title. Or I am intrigued about something by the title and then it’s fun to go on a bit of a tangent.

I also appreciate it that a submission with a small amount of upvotes has a discussion going.

Or people could learn to be based and redpilled like me and not karma-whore

Off topic. I didn't know what TFA was so I googled. It didn't help (a cursory search). So I asked chatgpt, that helped. The Full Article.

I, of course, knew what you meant.

ChatGPT is wrong. The F stands for Fucking, Freaking, or (more politely) Fine. There’s RTFA like RTFM.

Amusingly, https://www.google.de/search?q=what+does+tfa+mean shows https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756 as the first hit for me.

ChatGPT won’t say anything that could possibly be considered offensive, unfortunately.

which like, we're adults here. "fuck" is against the guard rails?

I genuinely thought it meant The Fucking Article until now (like RTFM)

It does. Don’t believe everything ChatGTP says.

Oh, i was thinking about another f word.

That is more consistent with RTFM: read the f-ing manual, which I assume came before RTFA.

Of course ChatGPT will not answer the true f

Thank you.

btw, I didn’t read TFA. Will do