[tjalfi]

This hasn't been true for me.

My top 3 posts [0, 1, 2] are all fairly trite. All three of these were rated much higher than posts with extensive citations.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538068

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13441744

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13594765

Edited:

This post already has a higher score than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180432 which has five citations.

[mrkgnao]

Compare this low-effort comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14124411

to these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14016438

Getting "in" when a post has few comments and is going to attract a lot of comment readership quickly or stay on the frontpage for a while is probably more important than pure comment quality.

[3131s]

Absolutely true, and especially problematic because by their nature high-quality comments will take more time to formulate and therefore always be late to the party and get less visibility.