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Nah, no way on average an article gets 166 comments. That must be page views or something.

• RandallBrown 8y ago
  Why not? Most front page posts have several thousand posts, which seems like it might be enough to offset the 0 comments that most submissions will get.
  • overcast 8y ago
    So what are we talking about, 1% of 12 million articles gets a few thousand comments?
  • simias 8y ago
    The front page is obviously not representative in any way of 99% of the posts made on the platform. Look at the slew of posts made on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/all/new/ https://www.reddit.com/r/all/new/ Most will be lucking to reach 10 comments.