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Comment by ry0ohki | Hacker News Reader

It's also always amazing to me how few people upvote an article. Like something on the front page getting tens of thousands of votes, that people clearly like, and usually only a few hundred can be bothered to click a little arrow.

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I rarely upvote because doing so on HN automatically adds that article to your Saved section. I prefer to keep this section only for submissions to which I'd want to come back later (and I'm unsure if the "upvote to save" behavior can be changed).

Either way, view this as a great lesson in why getting conversions can be so tough. A person better have a very persuasive case for a stranger to go out of their way and click a button.

I had no idea this section even existed, and I've been on here for years, literally never clicked that link!

I'm in the same boat : Just because I like an article doesn't mean I want it saved to my permanent list. I would be very interested if there is a way to change this behavior as I would then upvote far more articles.

The saved section makes me more selective in terms of what merits an upvote. I will confess/admit/proclaim that the position of an article within the stack also influences my upvoting. In other words, my standard for upvoting is lower on the New page than the front page.

I tend to upvote articles that I read and find interesting. It's very easy to do, so perhaps they didn't find it interesting and as insightful as you did?

I don't know about others. But I upvote a lot!! And I almost always remember to come back to upvote after reading the article.

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