Showing scores made reading through comments feel more like a game, which was interesting but tended to take my attention away from the context of the original

Showing scores made reading through comments feel more like a game, which was interesting but tended to take my attention away from the context of the original link. I was also less interested in interacting, largely because the context was deemphasized and it seemed too easy to devolve into a mentality of competing for upvotes. That said, I do like the idea of using something like color coding (on username?) to highlight the top few comments.