[lapcat]

> The best comments are at the bottom.

You clearly don't have the showdead option enabled. ;-)

[maxbond]

That was my first reaction but they did address it in their comment.

> The real juicers are usually buried near the bottom of the page, a few comments above where the apathy and sarcasm start bleeding into grey.

Emphasis added.

[lapcat]

> a few comments above where the apathy and sarcasm start bleeding into grey.

I wouldn't call the dead comments apathetic and sarcastic. They're typically vile and humorless.