Time is limited. I'd be lying if I said that I read all comments in full when their first paragraph appear to be nonsense.

I'd rather move on to the next comment.

Is this what it means for communities to be too large? Like, you'd never do this to a coworker or a friend, but here there's enough content and users that you can say "fuck it" and assume you know better than what you didn't actually read.

In fairness, lots of people talk over their friends.

I fail to see how this is good way to see all the HN users. Why would I even want that? There must be thousands of HN users.

Hundreds even!

Please take this seriously.

I'd prefer to not have to discuss problems in Ali's code I can't read, yet his algorithm doesn't work, but I can fix typos in our resident elderly COBOL programmer's output, even though he's from SE Asia and his English is rather basic. It seems like a personal preference, yet I think it's more complicated than that.

I honestly don't understand how people can reply without even reading what they're replying to. And when they do, why aren't they downvoted to oblivion?

It's not always easy to get these jokes in the internet, even more so for non-English speakers which are, precisely, the ones who may be more harmed for not getting this particular joke.

I only downvote when I see some comment that goes against the rules, I do not think that it is my task to punish those who do not read a comment or do not get a joke.

Our comments, however, clearly go against the guidelines:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Doesn't everyone do that?