Comment by graycat
4 years ago
Anomaly: How can a thread quickly get a lot of points, many more points than posts? So, who is voting up points but not posting?
4 years ago
Anomaly: How can a thread quickly get a lot of points, many more points than posts? So, who is voting up points but not posting?
I'd reckon the majority of users, you see this all over the internet where there's ability to vote or 'like' something; Twitter, Youtube, Facebook etc - the vote will usually outweigh the comment count.
On HN the culture of 'nothing good to say?; say nothing' is fairly baked in so will create this effect even more so.
Voting allows lurkers a voice, who often are the majority of users (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker citation 11).