[RyanZAG]

Isn't the whole reason behind the 'points' part of the HN comments to hide inane comments? If a comment is inane, it will be down-voted and grayed out. I think relying on humans is a far better filter for inane comments than number of syllables in a sentence.

That said, the code looks good and the idea is fun - might be nice to try and implement a javascript NLP library to make it more intelligent? [1]

[1] http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/node_js_natural_language_n...

[solox3]

Has it happened to you at least once that something was greyed out, but you instinctively tried harder to read it because you couldn't?

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Well, at a certain number of levels deep, comments seem to be un-downvoteable. I don't quite understand why.

[tvon]

I think there is just a delay, to keep back-and-forth arguing at a minimum you cannot immediately vote on or respond to a deeply nested comment.

[illuminate]

To keep the bickering to a minimum.