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by funkyy 3596 days ago
But mostly are. Lets assume 90th percentile rule - 90% of comments below half of the page are worse than comments on upper half of page.

While some comments might be quite good below, if you have limited time and want to be more successful at cutting "crap" you will hover only around top comments. Not a perfect thing, but this is what makes this place different from Reddit - you can be almost sure top comments will be valuable, cleverly funny, starting some interesting thought and not funny image, joke or offensive.