I don’t read a lot of articles because I can get an informative gist of an article quickly through reading comments. But I also rarely vote articles up or comments up for this reason
Since you are new to HN, you may not know this, but it is considered poor form to complain about being downvoted. And more often than not, it invites even more downvotes as a result.
From the HN Guidelines (which I recommend reading):
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.