FOLLOWUP thinking more on re-nesting, slashdot detaches high-scoring comments from their logical nesting (and you have to follow parent links to find the post t

FOLLOWUP thinking more on re-nesting, slashdot detaches high-scoring comments from their logical nesting (and you have to follow parent links to find the post to which they were replying). I think slashdot knows much of this - I wonder if it would be helpful for cmdtaco and pg to chat (even, a voting-site conference)... or is it still too proprietary/competitive? Another way is too hide a comment if it has lower karma than a reply (using reddit-style [+] so it can be unhidden - or perhaps just omit it, and just use "parent" to see it). The key benefit is that comments that only make sense as a reaction (e.g. criticism) to another comment won't be as interesting, and (hopefully) will get downvoted. This might lead people to change their voting behaviour, to also vote the parent up if they think it does contribute after all (it's a problem that interesting questions don't get voted up, only the interesting answers, because then it's lost down the page... and interesting questions should be encouraged/rewarded, IMHO). A downside might be that people will try to "win" the thread. I really like this idea. tl;dr: don't display parent if a child scores higher (still accessible by "parent" link), so they rank higher. Like slashdot.