I don't think either of those are terribly good metrics. Using two of my own submissions... Compare Google's blog post on robots crawling news articles: http:

I don't think either of those are terribly good metrics. Using two of my own submissions... Compare Google's blog post on robots crawling news articles: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=708417 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=708417 to an inflammatory post about Techcrunch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658308 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658308 One of those is 'quality', and the other has comments (and 'dead' status).