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Ars Technica has the best model, imo. Promote excellent comments to the article page and have the discussion on a separate one.

• Karunamon 11y ago
  Ars unfortunately suffers from the hivemind problem. They attached voting buttons a few years back, and unpopular enough opinions will be buried under a torrent of votes and be hidden. But the idea of promoting useful comments is a good one, so long as the promotion is a mark of insight, not agreement with the author's politics. Ars doesn't suffer much from this, but given some of the polemic I've read on Guardian, I believe they may
  • andy_ppp 11y ago
    Yes comments with lots of up votes and downvoted should be highlighted as provoctresting.