Personally, I get a lot of value from knowing the comment scores. Mostly as a first-pass filter for finding the gems in the discussion. I also really like the

Personally, I get a lot of value from knowing the comment scores. Mostly as a first-pass filter for finding the gems in the discussion. I also really like them to help find the gems in a user's comment stream. The value I get more than offsets any of the negative points mentioned elsewhere in this conversation (or the many others we've had since you started this experiment) Please let me view comment scores. Make it a profile option or something. -- This comment will likely be unread since the poll has already fallen off the front page. But I care enough about the issue to write it up anyway. Why did you post your poll over the holiday long weekend? I took my family on a road trip beach vacation (almost entirely offline) so I missed the chance to participate when the conversation was fresh and active :(