But that also has it's disadvantages.

Let's get this hypothetical tier for example:

Karma you have - Karma you need to post

10 - 1

100 - 10

1.000 - 100

10.000 - 1000

Once you reach a thousand karma, you would need at least get 100 karma for your comment to 'regain' your previous 'level'.

And the point with that is that you don't only need well-thought-out-posts to reach this, you also need to have the luck that people read your comment.

In a post with 1000+ comments, your comment might be very resourcefull, but there's a huge chance you will get buried, so the 'risk' will be to great... Thus it will actually stop people from posting useful comments, in stead of garbage.

This will probably discourage and thus reduce the amount of "smaller" discussion that sometimes spawn in the lesser 'populated' parts of the commentsection. Actual good discussions with no more than 2-3 people. The ones I actually enjoy partaking in, myself.

No, what we need is a system where there is no real disadvantage to throwing in your opinion or witty joke or whatnot; and where everyone else will be free to decide what's 'garbage' and whatnot. Then we will make sure that all the comments that the general public dislike end up on the bottom of the page, and the 'good' comments will get the attention they deserve.

..... Did you see what I did there? ಠ_ಠ