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And here I was, thinking firefox was screwing up the JS. I guess this should improve the quality of discussions a lot, since a lot of people tend to just skim the few comments at the top. Not displaying the comment scores might make them read more.


I don't think this'll stop people from just skimming the top.

But, it will stop them from finding those highly rated comments hidden by a low rated parent comment.


Which brings us to an interesting point: Shouldn't comment threads be sorted by the total votes for all comments in that thread???


That might make sense but it could still mean that a long, pointless, off-topic discussion would rise to the top, above other shorter, succinct comments that might end up buried at the bottom.


I believe the shorter on-topic comment would be voted up more than the off-topic thread (unless ofcourse, the off-topic thread involves a sparky issue like Micheal Arrington).




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