Could we perhaps just give sub-threads a descending rank (starting at 1 for the highest voted comment) instead? Comment scores were never an indication of accur

Could we perhaps just give sub-threads a descending rank (starting at 1 for the highest voted comment) instead? Comment scores were never an indication of accuracy, so validation may be the wrong word. There do seem to be more than a few people (myself not included) concerned with an indication of consensus so a middle ground solution that brings that data back could be useful.