Suggestion: Vote Value Bubble Up
Hey all,
One thing I always hated about Reddit was that a -20 post could have a +500 response, but the entire comment tree would be placed at the bottom of the thread.
I think it would be very cool if the value of child comments bubbled up through to the parent comment for the purpose of sorting.
Pros:
High quality responses to low quality posts would be more visible
Posts that provoke more discussion would be sorted higher than ones that don't, and posts that provoke high quality discussion would be sorted higher than low quality joke threads
Cons:
High quality posts that didn't provoke a lot of discussion might be pushed down
Probably abusable with coordination between multiple users
I apologize if this has already been planned or suggested before.
Thanks,
Urs
One possible drawback of this would be that it would make it even harder for a new comment to compete with an older comment that has a bunch of children inflating its score.
I think that this is already a problem with the traditional system; newer comments will always be at a disadvantage. this system would allow high quality comments that provoke discussion to quickly rise above the single posts at the bottom that didn't provoke discussion (because both the new comment and its children would be able to push the comment up)