[ajhit406]

Love the movement and glad there are founders out there pushing the envelope for their team.

(aside: 51 points but only 1 comment? It's a front-page worthy article, but sort of feels like there's some vote gaming happening. I've never seen 50 points w/ 1 comment.)

[dang]

That's actually a lot more common than people assume it is, and comments like "I can't believe there are X points but only Y comments" are more common than you'd think they'd be as well!

My theory is that it's a sign of a good article, because more energy is going into reading it than into posting quick comments (which are usually less valuable comments). But I don't have the data.

Edit: well... we have the data (to test this), but it would be enough of a pain to do the analysis that other things will probably take precedence forever.

[wiradikusuma]

I'm one of those people who upvoted without commenting. I think it's just a way of saying, "I found this article interesting / I agree with the content, but I don't have anything of value to add".

But hey I just commented :)

[neilv]

The usual problem of late on HN is people commenting without upvoting, even if they like the article.

On this post, I started reading, then paused to hurry back and upvote on HN, to do my part to keep it from falling off the front page, before I returned to finish reading.

[kortilla]

It’s a vote bait title. (Type of thing people upvote without reading the article)

[bigiain]

I wonder if that's something the algorithm can detect?

Measure the time between when someone clicks a link to the article and when they upvote it, compare that to one of the "estimated reading time" metrics of the linked page...

(Which, of course won't work, because at least some people (ie me) open a bunch of tabs for everything that looks interesting on the homepage, then spend a few minutes at a time over the entire morning choosing a tab and reading/voting...)

[stefantheard]

I had no intention of posting this to HN (someone I don't know posted it!) and also didn't expect more than the 10 people I shared it with to actually read it - no vote bait intended! I'm happy to take your feedback on a better title that is less baity and more apt.