Thanks rms, I'll post it in that thread as well. I know why stories (and comments) start at one point, but your karma value is only comprised of the upvotes an

Thanks rms, I'll post it in that thread as well. I know why stories (and comments) start at one point, but your karma value is only comprised of the upvotes and downvotes by others, so that point never really counts for anything. My main point is that when commenting on a story, the system should automatically upvote it for you, since more comments should equal a 'better' story and be moved higher up on the site. Another way to do it would be to do away with story upvoting and simply use the sum total of the votes given to the story's comments. I like HN for the discussion, and such a change in the weighting should promote more discussion.