It's very simple to continue your eye movement a couple more centimeters so as to skip the xkcd entries. It's also very easy to restrain yourself from upvoting

It's very simple to continue your eye movement a couple more centimeters so as to skip the xkcd entries. It's also very easy to restrain yourself from upvoting it or clicking through. It's also very easy to not get worked up over it as xkcd entries only make it to the front page every once in a while. You don't need an article to spark interesting discussion. A comic can do the same, and from what I've seen in this thread, there's some interesting discussion.