> What do you think about HN automatically up-voting a story once you've commented on it? I think it is a bad idea. If we wanted this place to be Reddit, we'd

> What do you think about HN automatically up-voting a story once you've commented on it? I think it is a bad idea. If we wanted this place to be Reddit, we'd do what you're describing. To make the "karma" be a useful metric, we'd need to break them out into comment vs post karmas just like Reddit. > If a story is worth commenting on, shouldn't you want others to see it? I tend to read the comments as well as the stories. Sometimes the comments are far more interesting than the stories. I also know that I fall for the trap that is mocked in this comic: http://xkcd.com/386/ http://xkcd.com/386/