It's like it's gone from a cherry-picking exercise to an actual reading exercise. It requires more of a commitment, and it seems to keep the dialog on a more c

It's like it's gone from a cherry-picking exercise to an actual reading exercise. It requires more of a commitment, and it seems to keep the dialog on a more contemplative level. We're all speaking about "seems" and "feels" here, so it's coming down to impressions (not to mention taste differences), but some ideas for measuring the effect: - change in the "story point count"-to-"comment count" ratio - change in average current (and future?) karma of the people who do comment - change in average comment length None of these is an objective measure of quality, but they do indicate "change" which might help Paul or whoever make a decision about whether that change was desirable.