I&#x27;m picky about the kinds of articles I read from HN. I admit that I responded in this thread because I figured the title itself insinuated a lot more than it should.<p>I tend to opt not to read or participate in threads based on that though. 
General rules are: read the headline and the number of points for each item on the home page and the &quot;new&quot; page; if it&#x27;s interesting pop it into a tab.
If the quality of the article is mediocre or bad then it just gets closed.<p>Then I don&#x27;t come back for at least two hours.<p>Not sure this is a great general strategy, I&#x27;d be interested to see what other people do.