I don't upvote a lot of articles, but with especially good ones I usually remember to. I really don't read a lot of the articles, and always after reading the H

I don't upvote a lot of articles, but with especially good ones I usually remember to. I really don't read a lot of the articles, and always after reading the HN comments -- I'm not going to click through to an article with no summary other than an often-abstruse headline until I know what it's actually about. (Slashdot > HN here, since Slashdot at least had article summaries, even if they were often biased. [1]) If I actually go read the article and like it I usually remember to upvote it I think. I flag articles every so often, usually political rants and such. As far as I am concerned, the purpose of an article being posted to HN is so an interesting discussion can follow it: if the article is not going to generate a worthwhile discussion (which political articles don't) then there's no reason for it to be on the site. For comments, mostly I upvote grey comments that I don't think deserved downvotes. Rarely do I upvote comments that are already at the top of the discussion -- they don't need more help. I upvote other comments too if I like them, I suppose. I probably do use downvoting as just a "disagree" button too much though. But I figure posting an arguing reply just adds more noise to the discussion; it's better to just downvote and move on. [1] I like how I refer to Slashdot in the past tense here.