[627467]

I personally rely on frontpage and comment count as an indicator as to weather I should spend anymore time to read that article/comments. I do read all titles though so metrics are not the only factor.

I do realize that in using HN in this way I'm "leeching" off of hn curators work rather than contributing to curating new things myself...

[ranger207]

Personally, I place more weight on comment count than vote count. If I'm here for interesting articles, people discussing a topic is more interesting than votes. The only use votes have is for seeing how controversial a submission is.