Not having it there feels like the hole left by a tooth that just fell out; vaguely unsettling. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing. Note that i

Not having it there feels like the hole left by a tooth that just fell out; vaguely unsettling. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing. Note that if you consider HN users as nodes in a bayesian network classifying comments as "good" or "bad," we should not be influenced by the score a comment already has. We should just give our own opinion on it. I'd like to know how the variance in comment scores for the time since the feature was implemented compares with an equal period beforehand.