So what? Does it really matter if comments have higher scores or not? The only thing they are good for now is getting karma to show off on a profile page? Why not just remove karma all together then?
The value of the points on comments before was to help distinguish higher quality comments. Comments that added value generally got a higher score, and we could browser for that.
That can no longer happen.
By all means do not display the points on comments, but do not remove the ability to scan for higher quality comments. You can use some other visual method or indicator to suggest that certain comments are higher quality.
Otherwise, the karma does nothing except provide an encouragement to post comments and links so you can get karma...? I just don't see the value.
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So what? Does it really matter if comments have higher scores or not? The only thing they are good for now is getting karma to show off on a profile page? Why not just remove karma all together then?
The value of the points on comments before was to help distinguish higher quality comments. Comments that added value generally got a higher score, and we could browser for that.
That can no longer happen.
By all means do not display the points on comments, but do not remove the ability to scan for higher quality comments. You can use some other visual method or indicator to suggest that certain comments are higher quality.
Otherwise, the karma does nothing except provide an encouragement to post comments and links so you can get karma...? I just don't see the value.