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I was skeptical at first as well, but your own stats show a different picture: the site gets a lot of views, which correlates with the upvotes. No comments is p

by baxtr 9y ago

I was skeptical at first as well, but your own stats show a different picture: the site gets a lot of views, which correlates with the upvotes. No comments is probably due to the fact that people use upvoting as a mechanism to save links to material (which might be of use later)

SamPutnam 9y ago
To clarify, I don't think this is improper use of the upvote mechanism, I was just hoping for more engagement with the comment feature of Hacker News, given the 7k click thrus.
- bdcravens 9y ago
  Ironically, more comments about your meta-comment.
- baxtr 9y ago
  That's just what you've achieved :-) Probably not the way you intended it, though