Ask YC: What if Comments Made a Difference to Improving Karma and Front Page Status?

Here's a thought: Everyone seems to want some kind of input on revolutionizing how karma is ranked, how votes are counted but I'm noticing a trend: A lot of submissions that are voted up have fewer comments than submissions with lower vote counts. Now, maybe I'm missing something; this could very well already be the case - but would a more economic system be one that calculates points, and by association karma be one where points are allocated based on the number of comments a submission gets? Perhaps even a flat ratio. 10 votes for 4 comments = 2.5, which we know is rounded up to 3. A person would then get 3 points for his submission based on that. It's devastatingly simple, but a lot more accurate, and much more fair to users who comment on a submission perhaps to point out something the user didn't cover (which is a positive since it enhances the value of what we all get from the submission) but don't vote because they may not exactly share the same opinion. No one is disadvantaged, and they contribute karma just the same to the original poster. Thoughts?