I can relate. I spend some of my time skimming what others have written on Hacker News, looking for links to other content. Sometimes those links are better than the subject linked at the top.
A good example is the recent discussion of Kent Beck's “Mastering Programming” from 2016. the new discussion of it on hn is mostly positive, with a few detracting comment s, which I collapse. Hierarchy of Troubleshooting is a good example of distillation/synthesis that I often encounter on forums.
As to getting overwhelmed, I just don’t comment unless the words follow without effort, and I definitely don't comment if I have nothing to add. It prevents me from overloading and enforces my skimming habit.
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I can relate. I spend some of my time skimming what others have written on Hacker News, looking for links to other content. Sometimes those links are better than the subject linked at the top.
A good example is the recent discussion of Kent Beck's “Mastering Programming” from 2016. the new discussion of it on hn is mostly positive, with a few detracting comment s, which I collapse. Hierarchy of Troubleshooting is a good example of distillation/synthesis that I often encounter on forums.
As to getting overwhelmed, I just don’t comment unless the words follow without effort, and I definitely don't comment if I have nothing to add. It prevents me from overloading and enforces my skimming habit.