Comment by gnicholas

Reading the comments is a great way to figure out if an article is worth reading carefully.

I do find myself collapsing comments a bit so I don't have to read all the replies to the top comment, but I find comments overall to be immensely useful. If HN were just a place where articles/posts were upvoted/downvoted, I would have stopped visiting a long time ago. The comments are what create the community, and the community is why I'm here.