[nitwit005]

People will happily attack you without even reading what you have to say. People have done experiments with headlines which demonstrate as much: https://www.upworthy.com/comments-didnt-read-the-article

There have been a number of incidents where people have gone after individuals, only for it to be very clear later on they'd done nothing wrong.

[joubert]

I'd be curious to know what % of us here:

read an article fully, then

give it due consideration, then

read the entire HN comment thread, and then

add thoughtful comments in the HN thread