Is there a reason HN doesn't put comments in ascending or descending order but make it all over the place, especially with karma hidden. If I had to guess, thi

Is there a reason HN doesn't put comments in ascending or descending order but make it all over the place, especially with karma hidden. If I had to guess, this had something to do with karma and trying to show which comments were most popular back in the day (wild stab in the dark here) but when someone returns to a thread to view new comments, that doesn't matter. And if they want to see responses to comments they've made, there is already a link for that. I think at the least allow sorting to show newest comments on top would help on huge comment threads