> Instead, people often tend to misread or miserunderstand > what's being said, only to use the opportunity to write a > "correction" based on that false impression.

Part of this issue is what at Stackoverflow was called the "Fastest Gun in the West Problem" [1].

I think a successful strategy on HN is: Write many comments really quickly and take the risk that some of them are bad or even wrong. The incentive for being an early commenter outbalances the penalty for being wrong sometimes.

[1] http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/solving-the-fastest-gu...