Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.
It’s true, though. I am very guilty of it. I have gotten better at it but 100% of the time I’d click the comments first no matter what. If it seemed worthy of my attention I’d click the link. If it seemed too far-fetched I’d click the link.
I’m realizing now that it’s mostly because I don’t want to wait the 0.5 seconds for another page to load (ridiculous on my part) and possibly deal with paywalls.
Same here. I blame the websites. Cookies, ads, tracking. A wall of meaningless text with half a sentence of content.
I also feel it costs some energy to navigate an unknown design. Which parts are menu, which are content, which are other articles “I might find interesting”? This is why I so love Wikipedia, reddit and now hopefully lemmy. One familiar design to browse mountains of content from various sources.
So I was kind of happy to stay in the comment section. Someone will surely quote the relevant parts of the article.
Honestly, it is as much a condemnation of the websites writing the articles as it is a problem with users.
A lot of news articles in particular are all fluff, no substance. Especially the ones later in the news cycle for any given news story can often be summarized by half a sentence and otherwise nothing new if you have been following the story.
