[joshuahedlund]

I've noticed there is an often a correlation with article quality and comment-to-upvote ratio. When something has X upvotes and X+ comments I've learned they often tend to descend into low-quality back-and-forths over oft-tread topics and tangents, often because the article itself makes poor or overly confident statements about a topic that lends itself to the low-quality back-and-forth cycle. Meanwhile, a quality article gets hardly any comments because people have fewer "contrarian" things to spit out and others have fewer "contra-contrarian" things to respond. Wonder if this is already taken into account when ranking articles, or could be.