Absolutely. In the longer threads I used to use comment karma as a way to decide if a long post/reply was worth reading or if it wasn't. If the rest of the thread was at 10+ and the long comment was at 2, then I knew I could just skip it.<p>I have to filter information, it is no longer possible with the wealth of information to read everything that is written and decide on its merit. The amount of news I take in daily, and process would overwhelm those who start their day with a newspaper and watch the news at 8 at night.<p>I hope that pg can reconsider, and add the karma back to the comments, it would definitely help me while reading HN.
I am surprised at how much I miss comment karma being visible. I scoffed at those who said they used it to gauge comments to consider versus skim past, but it turns out, it's exactly what I'd been doing. I guess I hadn't realized the amplification of the comment volume that has happened lately.