Personally I think a hybrid tier system is the best, simplest compromise. 1. Comments with 1 point stay as they are. 2. Comments with 2-9 points are marked as

Personally I think a hybrid tier system is the best, simplest compromise. 1. Comments with 1 point stay as they are. 2. Comments with 2-9 points are marked as moderately popular. 3. Comments with 10+ points that are marked as very popular. 4. Comments with <1 points are treated the same as they are now. Comment score tiers could be color coded or use any other marker to identify their popularity range. Hopefully this would keep things fuzzy enough that people don't fight over points while still making it easy enough to scan comments quickly.