[ScottWhigham]

This question/post highlights one of the reasons the "no karma score" here at HN is not so great (or perhaps could be improved). We, the HN community, might vote a particular answer to the top but OP/author will not necessarily know that this comment is at the top of the page for any particular reason.

In other words, let's say that @gfodor's comment ("This has to be one of the worst interview questions I've ever heard.") gets 500 upvotes. It will then get ranked first, meaning that it will be the first comment shown when the page is loaded. But that is not obvious - there are no other visual cues that confirm this information. The only way to know this is to have either looked through the source code, or to have been around and seen this question asked/answered.

So this valuable info (that 500 other HNers also thought this was a terrible question) is 100% lost to everyone. No one knows how popular it is. The OP cannot learn that his opinion is thought to be a terrible interview question.

I wish we had a better way of doing this... Maybe OP can see comment scores but no one else can? Dunno...