There are two reasons you might want to share the link to an HN discussion: if there is interesting discussion going on, or if you want to encourage people to u

There are two reasons you might want to share the link to an HN discussion: if there is interesting discussion going on, or if you want to encourage people to upvote it. In this case, there is no discussion about the article, just about the upvote brigade. So the only reason for sharing the link to the HN discussion would be to get people to upvote it.