Would it help to have comments with more upvotes moved higher on the comment list? It would be similar to Reddit but would allow users to avoid most of the useless comments we see. Maybe they already have plans for something like that but I'm not sure.
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With that system in place you tend to find whoever gets in early tends to corner the market on up votes. Even a reply on a top parent comment tends to get more up votes than a late primary comment that contributes more overall to the discussion
We would be better served with a random order of parent comment chain being presented at each loading off the page. In the hopes that we are more likely to find and up vote interesting content that helps discussions.