This all sounds great if it wasn't for one thing: upvotes. Because of that, we have a system that changes what/when people see things. If we had only replies in

This all sounds great if it wasn't for one thing: upvotes. Because of that, we have a system that changes what/when people see things. If we had only replies in order of posting that would be like this suggestion. It tends not to scale when there are very many (some duplicate) comments.