Here are some of the reasons why I voted to display comment scores 1. HN is a great community and imo members should be treated as responsible adults. Comment

Here are some of the reasons why I voted to display comment scores 1. HN is a great community and imo members should be treated as responsible adults. Comments that are "(a) mean and/or (b) dumb" are a problem. However, I think that the people who make these comments are going to make the comments regardless of whether comment scores are visible or not. After the visibility-change, I didn't see any positive change in comment quality (but I've wondered if comment quantity has increased) Obviously, this is a subjective assessment. For everyone who believes as I do, I suspect that many others believe that they have seen a qualitative improvement in comments. Regardless, I think that it will be great for HN to self-police itself as a community of responsible adults (and responsible teens) instead of assuming that HN is an immature community that needs to be protected from looking at comment scores. --- 2. Hiding comment scores skews the scores. Some people have said that they don't upvote comments because they don't know what the comment's score is. OTH some populist comments (or comments from popular members) are going to get insanely high scores because upvoters don't realize that the banal comment's score is already much higher than what it should have been. --- 3. Visible comment scores are a simple and great indicator of what HN feels about the comment. imo this is a very useful indicator for everyone on HN.