As long as it doesn't lead down the path of auto-buried comments, then I'm all for it. I hated Reddit and Digg for burying unpopular comments, especially when

As long as it doesn't lead down the path of auto-buried comments, then I'm all for it. I hated Reddit and Digg for burying unpopular comments, especially when they're the start of a discussion. I remember getting 8 buried comments in a string and the discussion still going, it made the whole thing asinine. Unpopular comments still deserve being readable without extra action otherwise we lose huge swathes of what makes HN great - like insightful and thoroughly thought responses.