>>I also want to suggest that it might be interesting to have some non-numeric display that still allows for the 'quick scan' that you mention. I agree with th

>>I also want to suggest that it might be interesting to have some non-numeric display that still allows for the 'quick scan' that you mention. I agree with this, may be displaying a color coded dot in place of the comment score. The color can be computed from a log function of the score, and we only need a few colors to indicate the different types of comments without giving too much information away.