Maybe we lose some awesome comments. Maybe if people are thinking more about what they write, we might gain an awesome comment instead of a trivial one. Maybe

Maybe we lose some awesome comments. Maybe if people are thinking more about what they write, we might gain an awesome comment instead of a trivial one. Maybe we might get far less comments, making it easier to notice awesome comments. Maybe awesome people get more interested in a more interesting site and start making additional awesome comments. ---- The orange name system fundamentally rewards quality over quantity. That is a step in the right direction for a system that has always been stupidly simple. Well, the commenting system was so simple that this change is quite large in the scheme of things.