Individual comments sans karma-per-comment is superbly smart. Seems like it will encourage higher quality comment quality across the board, as a function of le

Individual comments sans karma-per-comment is superbly smart. Seems like it will encourage higher quality comment quality across the board, as a function of less-biased individual comments in aggregate. Another + side-effect: decreasing the number of attack down-votes. It is annoying to see scores < 0 due to another person (coward) who uses downvote to "disagree" w/a valid point, and then everybody jumps on the bandwagon. It is possible to disagree without downvoting; just takes a little more thought / energy.