"I prefer HN without comment scores, because those fights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since I hid comment scores." I understand the

"I prefer HN without comment scores, because those fights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since I hid comment scores." I understand the feeling, but ... look away. :) The more comments per post, the more valuable comment scores are to me, not to judge the worth of comments, but to help me decide whether to skip long sub-threads or read them. If I see a number of comments have high scores I'll slow down and read a few more posts in the sub-thread. High comment scores tell me that there's high interest in the sub-thread.