I don't think it's just about personal things. As someone else replied, points affect all our judgements. However, overall, I found that for the most part, th

I don't think it's just about personal things. As someone else replied, points affect all our judgements. However, overall, I found that for the most part, the points were fairly accurate. Good comments got a good number of points. The problems people point to seem to be the exceptions, rather than the rule. My issue is that if you aren't using the points as any indicator of quality, then you've effective made the points useless. Why display them at all? They serve no purpose. The problem with this debate, and this pole, is the black and white nature of it. Either you display points, or you don't. Rather, I'd like to see a solution that balances the two. Don't display points, but use points under a single topic to figure out the worth of a comment. > If there's no points, everyone has to evaluate it critically and then, that's fine. That seems to be something a lot of "no-pointers" are pushing. Unfortunately, they fail to recognize a few things here. 1. People could do that before. 2. People are just as like to vote based on preconceived notions. 3. People who aren't experts in the field have little information other than what's presented to go on. Just because someone makes a seemingly good argument doesn't mean they are right. > If someone is being a jerk and incorrect, it's a lot easier to ignore them when they don't have a seemingly-legitimate blessing. 4. All comments are given an equal stage. Even comments that are wrong. (Voting down shouldn't be for disagreements. Rather, for comments that don't bring value). Basically, it levels the playing field for a debate between evolutionists and creationists. It makes them seem as if equals. 5. We still dim negative comments. Any argument for not displaying points needs to account for the dimming of negatively voted comments. As someone who has been negatively voted into dimness, only to be subsequently upvoted, negative votes being singled out doesn't help matters. People need to split the points and highlights discussion. Don't display points. However, use them to highlight comments in a threat. Base the comment value on the threads point distribution, not on a grand distribution. Basically, a high quality comment in a low traffic thread will have a different points value from that of a high quality comment in a high traffic thread.