users complained that without comment scores it was too hard to figure out what were the most interesting comments in a thread I was one of those complainers.

users complained that without comment scores it was too hard to figure out what were the most interesting comments in a thread I was one of those complainers. And that was then; this is now. I'm not sure I'd complain if the points went away again. Today I find that comment scores are no longer a reliable guide to anything I care about. Something has changed -- most likely just the scale of the whole system.