Comment by michaelmrose

Lets give people a prize for reading the comments in a story about why you shouldn't read the comments.

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Personally I like to enjoy both the articles and the comments and I often find value in each but lets be real I don't care about the optimal use of time because time spent on hacker news is inherently down time and entertainment. It's not goal oriented in the first place and it doesn't NEED to be optimized.