Agree with showing visible comment scores, disagree with karma of a scorer adding more weight to comment scores. Ok first the agreement. When I was a non-memb

Agree with showing visible comment scores, disagree with karma of a scorer adding more weight to comment scores. Ok first the agreement. When I was a non-member of HN, I use to skim through the comment thread and pick out good comments based on the score and most of the times, the HN community was great at identifying the best comments (Key phrase = "most of the times"). Then the scores were removed and I found myself regularly having to sift through the comment thread cause, like what the OP says, the top comments are more than likely the people who commented the earliest on the thread. In a comment thread where you have at least 30+ comments, you do sometimes find some interesting comments in the middle of the thread but again, without comment scores, I have to go through every one of them to pick out what is good or not. I would more than likely not be bothered if the thread had 100+ comments unless I'm absolutely interested in that topic or if it had comment scores. As for your solution, I disagree with the bigger the karma of the scorer = the more points is added to a comment score. I've seen this before in a particular forum and what I noticed was that users will start "blindly" agreeing or pandering to users with high karma just to get them to vote on their comment. I.e. If pg disagrees with say climate control, and a topic comes up in regards to that, you'll more likely see the comment thread heavily gravitating towards pg's views. Basically, what I am saying is that, doing this may result in a lot of comments being partial towards a user with high karma points if he/she participates in that comment thread.