I would like that and also forum comments that are ranked by what I would find agreeable instead of what some anonymous, amorphous, majority of the moment finds

I would like that and also forum comments that are ranked by what I would find agreeable instead of what some anonymous, amorphous, majority of the moment finds agreeable. Why should the user always be made to feel like the majority view is the "best" or "most accurate" view of things? At the core, I would do this by building a network graph of users who I've upvoted and users they've upvoted, and so on maybe a few levels deep. If anyone in that group of users has upvoted a comment, I want it on top - sorted by how many degrees of separation there are between me and the upvoter. The very simplistic, single-faceted comment rankings that most places implement right now is, including Hacker News, is simply brain-dead IMO. I've brought this up before and 100% of the time, one of the responses I get is "sounds like a good way to build an echo chamber". It's not a bad thing actually. I think it more accurately models real life where we don't hang around with a bunch of people that we find disagreeable, even if they are in the majority and even if they're "right". With a system like the one I propose, everybody can feel comfortable, say what they want and things will most likely be way, way easier to moderate if they don't just moderate themselves.