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

[richardofyork]

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

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

[patio11]

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."

[duck]

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!

[Aloisius]

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?

[dpcan]

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.

[cowboyhero]

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.)

[ColinWright]

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.

[kelnos]

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.

[duck]

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.

[AndrewDucker]

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.

[y0ghur7_xxx]

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.

[rabc]

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.

[lemieuxster]

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.

[ap0calyps3l8tr]

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.

[brown9-2]

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

[johnx123-up]

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

[jpwagner]

You need some choices involving comments...

[zwieback]

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.

[richardofyork]

Request granted, I added a choice for HN Comments.

[jberryman]

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

[vaksel]

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

[richardofyork]

Updated with a choice for HN comments