TL;DR: “If an article has more comments than votes, don’t add your comment to it or you may kill it off entirely!”
Rings true to me and, if indeed accurate, it seems like a good practice for HN.
Rings true to me and, if indeed accurate, it seems like a good practice for HN.
That particular weighting doesn't make sense to me. Clearly some people vote by commenting. Which is as it should be.
They disagree with the article or what have you and say so in the thread.