On Hubski I feel a social pressure to read every article before I click on the comments. It seems that there is such a higher standard of discussion here that when I want to visit the comment section I know that I'll be lost in the comments because I haven't read an article. So thank you for forcing me to not skip articles and read the comments while actually bettering myself in the process.
When I skip the article and read the comments, I find they make me want to go back and read the article. I like that, reading insightful comments that make me want to know more.
I always did that on reddit as well, but it's a system that really only works if the comment section is worth a damn. :)
Take a moment to also appreciate that the page sorting algorithm doesn't punish posts for it, either. On hubski, if you submit something and no one looks at it, and there are no hubspokes given, it will slowly drift off the front page. It might sit in obscurity for days or weeks. Now, maybe sometime later it gets linked to, or somebody finds it, and it gets it's first hubspoke, then it pops right back to the front page where the discussion is. It's pretty neat.
I've been experiencing the same thing. On Reddit, it became habit, anytime a link was posted, to not read the linked article, but the comments instead. Because inevitably a commenter would chime in, "I read the article, here's what it said" and others would say "By the way, here's research discounting what's said in the article". They did the work for me, and I got used to that.
That's great to read. I feel like I have had three formal educations in my life, schooling, professional/practical and Hubski. The community here and the content they share have really taught me a LOT. I'm indebted.