[SquareWheel]

>upvotes+downvotes

Seems this has two problems. One is promoting highly-voted on comments only encourages more voting, ensuring those comments stay at the top. Two is that extremely downvoted comments would be raised to the top, regardless of upvotes. It may prove to surface spam, trolling, or other nasties.

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Yup, upvote for fact! I realised this like about two minutes after I walked away from my desk! :) Maybe it would be best to have a "raw stream" which gives both the number of upvotes and downvotes, so you can inject a local js file to reorder stuff according to whatever you find is sensible?