[moobsen]

As much as we like to pretend to only look at the arguments itself, I think part of the reason is because Travis is a pretty well known hacker. If I or you had published it, it probably would not have made it to the front page.

Even if I disagree with his overall opinion on reproducible builds, I think he does bring forward valid arguments and I personally took something away from reading his blog post (e.g. the word bugdoor).

But to your point, I think up-voting is a sign of approval, while commenting usually is used to criticize. Why would anyone comment on something they 100% agree with?