this is why we should go back to be seeing karma points A lot of the super-upvoted comments aren't any better. Many get upvoted because they repeat some conven

this is why we should go back to be seeing karma points A lot of the super-upvoted comments aren't any better. Many get upvoted because they repeat some conventional view. I find these get in the way more than obviously bad ones do. They're more work to filter out. I noticed I'm relying more on user names as a proxy for how good the comment probably is. It's lossy (a good comment can come from an unexpected place) but not that lossy (humans are relatively consistent), and it's fast. I wonder if the software could support this way of using the site. The obvious ways of doing so would unfortunately fragment the community.