I usually skim the threads for high vote-count comments as well (and feel safe in upvoting them even higher). So yes, I'm biased by the vote count as well, but

I usually skim the threads for high vote-count comments as well (and feel safe in upvoting them even higher). So yes, I'm biased by the vote count as well, but I'm not sure if it's negative (I want/need a way to filter when I only want to read some comments!)