[NobleLie]

His whole point is that reading comments first is the mistake. It primes you with thoughts and opinions with little to no cognition required (recognizing they still may be valuable, but those comments will be there after your analysis...)

What we really need is to develop our own critical reading skills, how to connect dots on our own etc. I agree that seeing others comments first before starting that process might be a negative for many reasons.

[treehau5]

Most just don't have the luxury of critically analyzing things these days at their work -- the goal is to produce as fast and as much as possible. I find reading the comment sections first helps me gauge what exactly is important in the article and what the takeaways are -- from both angles. Then I can go back to work.