After thinking about the topic for the past year or so I sat down and wrote up the major problem I found with using up/down voting for comments in a rather long

After thinking about the topic for the past year or so I sat down and wrote up the major problem I found with using up/down voting for comments in a rather long blog entry http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2009/02/comments-rating-systems-close-look-at.html http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2009/02/comments-rating-s... I would be extremely surprised if HN changed or even tried a different system, but hopefully it can be useful for developers who are creating the next generation social new site. The key point: The number of points a good comment gets is directly related to the number of users that read the comment.