This is the one thing I have always missed about slashdot discussions. I rarely value the "humorous" posts on sites like this. It is not that I do not find the

This is the one thing I have always missed about slashdot discussions. I rarely value the "humorous" posts on sites like this. It is not that I do not find the jokes funny, I do, its just that I'd rather increase the SNR even at the cost of a few chuckles. I think the big impediment to widespread adoption is the difficulty in creating an useful interface for tracking "kind of upvote" and then filtering based on type of upvote. I always had my slashdot prefs set up so that I never saw the "+5 funny comments."