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Good principle but it let us down in this case as I've posted the most valuable comment here and it has no replies at all! :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item

• dang 7y ago
  The EV includes the value of the root comment. If that's large enough and there aren't any bad replies adding negative value, you win :) (Just to be clear, I'm using EV as a pseudo-technical metaphor. But it's a surprisingly good one, and could maybe be turned into a real model.)