I can use name recognition to scroll through a comment thread to find all the comments by the people that I consider in high regard, but this is much more effort than just having a karma system which automatically shows the top-voted comments first. (The karma system also doesn’t discriminate against new writers as badly as relying on name recognition does.)
I can use name recognition to scroll through a comment thread to find all the comments by the people that I consider in high regard, but this is much more effort than just having a karma system which automatically shows the top-voted comments first. (The karma system also doesn’t discriminate against new writers as badly as relying on name recognition does.)