Hell yes. I don't know about anybody else, but I upvote all sorts of stuff that I wouldn't necessarily upvote if there was a separate "save" feature. I'm an obsessive collector of links, so if I see a title that sounds even vaguely interesting and I'm in too big a hurry to read it right then, it gets an "upvote" because I'm really just saving it.
When you upvote a story hn adds it to a list available in your profile named "saved stories."
What's wrong with that?
I'd say in general this is probably fine since if you want to save a story you probably are fine up voting it as well. However, sometimes I don't have time to read something but would like to save it to read it later. In this case I wouldn't want to upvote it. My solution has been to use instapaper since it spans all websites and not just hn.
Wow. I didn't even realize that existed. Unfortunately, it didn't help me find something I read via here last week. I thought I had upvoted it too. Sheesh.
I guess you did not upvote it...
Because upvoting a story that seems interesting (ie: Yelp files for IPO) and wanting to save a submission related to some new service or project (ie: ClutchIO or some github project) are 2 different things for me. I never want to go back and read about Yelp IPO but I may in the future want to use that service or project submitted. That's just my use case though. I use read-later service now to do that.
Bookmarks --> Bookmark this page --> [folder - HN URLS]
I just use diigo to save HN discussions and Evernote to clip articles I want to archive.