Usually under a hot topic there will be hundreds of comments. Although some got up voted, to trust the up vote is to trust the general wisdom of the community.
Is there any strategy that one can apply?
Ask HN: How do you scan through tons of comments to find out those quality ones
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Re: Ask HN: How do you scan through tons of comments to find out those quality ones
#2Evaluate the commenter instead of the comment. That is, if you evaluated 100 comments by a commenter, you would probably get a useful estimate of how good a particular user's comments are.
Another factor would be to look for words that are tracers for "bad news". For instance, I saw my Aunt Lucy at the nursing home yesterday and she told me something she heard about Nancy Pelosi, and I already knew it was fake news, just because it was about Nancy Pelosi. There also are words and other signals that people are angry, disrespectful, etc.