I agree with you, for me the number of points a thread has is just a measure of how many people in our community think it's an interesting topic. About the qual

I agree with you, for me the number of points a thread has is just a measure of how many people in our community think it's an interesting topic. About the quality of the thread, well, as you said, quality is in the eye of the beholder, for example, the thread that pg is showing as an example, (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=106893 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=106893) is a funny and interesting one for me. How we actually measure quality?... Hmmm, that would make a great startup right?