The people who downvoted are expressing disapproval of a failure to closely read the article. He says he was scare d to see who she chose to critique before clicking, but we infer from his discussion that he did in fact click and read. Therefore, the fact that he was ignorant of how the singers to be rated were selected implies skimming.

It was a way of saying:RTFA

I didn't vote on the comment, but I can imagine it was downvoted for slightly rude tone "Well, I couldn't know that" and claiming not to read the article but only "the headline".

Thanks for the answer.

I must have read it in a different light then; to me it looked like a complaint about a misleading submission headline.

Thank you, that was what I actually meant. When I saw the headline here regarding the "top 5", I didn't know if my inner fanboy could handle e.g. having the singer of Slipknot amongst that set. I thought that my initial comment was evidence enough that I did RTFA.

And I actually inserted the "Well" to make it sound less harsh, but apparently that made it look a bit arrogant to a few people. The nuances of written language…