Comment by tejohnso

"You can read an article written by someone who went through the difficulties I mentioned earlier and spent quite some time creating a content that he found important enough, or you can read the comments made by several other people who took like 10 seconds to write something"

Can't I do both? I'm pretty sure I can, because that's what I do.

"You can read an article that is at least somewhat cohesive and informative, or you can read countless opinions that often do not add anything to your knowledge."

Again, I'm pretty sure I can do both. And opinions in comments often do add something valuable. That's why I continue to read them.

"You can choose to read a piece of article that took 1 hour to write by one person, or read the comments made by 360 people who took 10 seconds to write their opinion about the article. In the end, you end up consuming the same 3600 man-seconds. The difference is that the article author went through the steps I mentioned earlier to give a better experience about his content, and the commenters did not."

Three different paragraphs all to say the same thing. The article should be more useful, so you should read that instead of the comments, which are almost certainly not useful.

I guess my experience is not at all similar. Most of the time I find the comments more useful than the article. The article in question is no exception. The entire thing can be summarized in one "ten second" comment with nothing useful added by reading the full article.