Whatever metric you use, since HN as a community is effectively training the metric, you'll simply capture what HN users consider as "high-quality" comments. H

Whatever metric you use, since HN as a community is effectively training the metric, you'll simply capture what HN users consider as "high-quality" comments. HN users do have their biases (in my opinion): - Anti big company (GOOG, APPL, ... Lees so for APPL thouhg) - Mostly left leaning - Value political correctness over accuracy - Anti defense and government (loathe 3 letter agencies, despite being fully cognizant of their mission statements) I personally do not consider any comment falling squarely in the above silos to be high-quality, but you'll see them being consistently up-voted by the community.