I nearly always read the comments first and in most cases don't read the article. I don't up-vote often, but I'll occasionally up-vote an item which appears to

I nearly always read the comments first and in most cases don't read the article. I don't up-vote often, but I'll occasionally up-vote an item which appears to be developing an interesting discussion. There's also a lot of cases where the article could be an arbitrary choice for an explosive news item. I view HN as more of a forum by news topics than an aggregator of news links. An article which suggests that HN gets fooled by AI doesn't know how HN works. Though most media articles seem to misunderstand technical topics in general.