I voted for with points, but I think there really should have been a third option. The main reason I like points is it helps tell me what comments are worthy o

I voted for with points, but I think there really should have been a third option. The main reason I like points is it helps tell me what comments are worthy of me spending time to read when a story has 50+ comments. So without points, I think you still need a way to show what is valuable and worth reading for the most popular stories. There are a couple ways to do this. One option would be to personalize what comments are deemed important to me. For instance if I go and up vote pg comments, then when I go to another story and theres a pg comment it should give me a mark to let me know this comment will probably be of value to me. Another user might visit the same story and down-rate your comment because they don't like it. Thats fine, in the future, your comments probably won't be displayed prominently for them in this case. This moves away from the group-think mentality of what is valuable to an individuals preference, which I think is more valuable and provides a less contentious exchange platform.