[Raphmedia]

We need a HN Best-of comment section and we need to put your comment into it.

[markatkinson]

You could start a whole separate website of just "Best HN comments".

[cloakandswagger]

There's no need for a separate website, HN already provides a collection of best comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cloakandswagger

[planteen]

I see what you did there

[ojbyrne]

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

[tehwalrus]

That's awesome. Are these just comments with a high karma, or is there some other magic going on?

[exolymph]

Seems like a combination of length and karma — or maybe length and karma just happen to correlate? There are short ones in there too. Hmm.

[bkanber]

My guess is it's a simple time-decay-weighted karma-based formula. That is, karma * e ^ -age. "Best" vs "top" may be the difference in net karma vs gross positive karma.