Do people really remember authors of such generic comments? Is it only because they were heavily upvoted because of the popularity of the commenter? I think th

Do people really remember authors of such generic comments? Is it only because they were heavily upvoted because of the popularity of the commenter? I think that upvoting mechanism on sites like HN/Reddit/Lobsters really hurt the idea of free idea flow. People focus on the author too much, not the idea.