> They draw our attention to the best comments. Just to note, they don't necessarily draw your attention to the best comments, just the ones that have been vis

> They draw our attention to the best comments. Just to note, they don't necessarily draw your attention to the best comments, just the ones that have been visible the longest. If you come across a post with 800 comments and the top post has 300 upvotes, how much less likely are you going to be to post a comment or thought? Removing the score both makes it less intimidating to post, and also increases the likelihood that people are going to find your post-- each user has to trawl through the top level comments on their own to figure out what's good, as opposed to stopping as soon as they hit the 1- or 2- upvoted comments at the bottom of the page.