Again, I meant upvotes on comments, not on stories. I should have been more clear. Anyway, there are probably social effects on the voting of stories going on -

Again, I meant upvotes on comments, not on stories. I should have been more clear. Anyway, there are probably social effects on the voting of stories going on - I'm just not that clear on the other algorithms in place that HN uses to determine the rank of stories (that's why I left this out for now).