It's not just the quality, but quantity. A lot of articles have no comments, but vote high enough to hit front page on 'classic'. Comments are clumpier. To me i

It's not just the quality, but quantity. A lot of articles have no comments, but vote high enough to hit front page on 'classic'. Comments are clumpier. To me it's a signal the article is good enough to skim, but not worth the effort to add detail. Reading the comments prior to the article is/used to be my default because of the added insight.