As others have noted, the problem was always going to have to be solved at some point. So no, TechCrunch should not modify its current behaviour. I have my ow

As others have noted, the problem was always going to have to be solved at some point. So no, TechCrunch should not modify its current behaviour. I have my own theory for how to solve this problem. You start off by putting on a filter - all comments with less than 5 points are hidden from users unless they specifically ask for them to be seen. Each post, when first posted, automatically has a +5 modifier, so it gets seen. But a post is reduced by one point after 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 hours. If you have received a few positive votes, your comment will stay up, but if others feel that it is repetitive, or doesn't have any interesting comment, it will disappear after a while. Those time values may need to change dynamically to be more rapid for heavy traffic threads. The other thing to fix it is to really encourage people to actually give votes for EVERY post that they find worthwhile. This imncreases the amount of feedback in the system. Perhaps there should be a quick three to four sentence guide to voting at the top of every YC News page? Anyway, that's what I came up with after many years of frustration with slashdot...