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Maybe, but sometimes there are low-effort comments that get highly upvoted. For example, if someone submits an article about how Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman, is trying to ruin net neutrality, someone could make a comment saying, "Man, fuck Ajit Pai," and it would probably be upvoted highly, because it succinctly says what everyone's thinking. But if you'd be okay with that, I suppose karma would work.

The next question is how much karma determines a decent comment for each subforum. For very small subforums, a score of 3 could mean that each active user upvoted the post, where for bigger ones, it might be more like 7. We probably shouldn't use the subscriber count, because subscribers don't reflect the number of active users. Just take this post for example - there are 106 people subscribed to /f/meta, but only 6 upvotes on the post.

Maybe we could use a system that takes all the comments in the last 30 days, sorts them by score, then picks the median value as the minimum indicator of a "decent" comment score. If someone has a comment with a score greater than or equal to that value, then that's probably a decent comment. This may not work very well, so we'd have to test this out, and adjust the value accordingly.

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