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I don't think that 10% comments, the numbers I remember are 10% votes and 1% comments. And looking at some random topics it seems to be roughly there, 10% comments is way too high.

I'd go further than this and say out of that 1% who create content further 99% shouldn't.

I'd suppose that on a personal level and for HN, activity also changes with experience.

I've been passively reading HN for a few years as a junior dev after my team lead introduced the site to my before even creating an account.

I've been making comments on a few topics of interest now and then in the past three years.

Since a few months I feel like "yeah, I should probably write some docs + blog posts" which might be interesting to other HN readers.

I've also noticed that some HN users write a lot of comments to any kind of post whereas others mainly commment on articles related to their are of expertise.