[10dpd]

This is a great idea, however there is fundamental flaw in their hypothes.is, a flaw that is inherent in all comment-based sytems (Hacker News, Digg, Redit ).

The flaw is to score people based on past comments, thereby creating a meritocracy that will lead to those voices that need to be heard the most being lost in the noise.

[tilgovi]

That's only true under the assumption that popularity is the only factor in visibility. On hacker news that's not even true entirely because there's a temporal factor: new postings remain visible for at least a short time. However, there may exist other possible ways to artificially increase visibility in order to promote diversity. Some of these methods are the research subject of Paul Resnick at the University of Michigan who is listed as an advisor.