When it can be read (and I am interested), then I will read it before writing a comment about it, but it doesn't always work. When it is audio or video instead, or if it doesn't work for whatever reason, I will just ignore the article, but may still read the comments if it looks like interesting (and reply to a comment if there is a comment that I can read and that I have further comments about). Sometimes an article has bad formatting but disabling CSS will help, so I may still read it in that case (but with CSS disabled).