<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>The problem with &amp;quot;by top score&amp;quot; is it would itself influence the scoring, even if only some people used it. The oldest comments would stay at the top of such a list, because they get seen more and thus have more opportunities for upvotes, creating a self-sustaining cycle. You always need a time counterweight.</text><parent_chain><item><author>n_t</author><text>Is it possible to add some basic sort options for comments - latest and top score?</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>If you want to reply about comment sorting and ordering, do so here.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>Replies to this top comment have been quite a job to juggle. My approach has been to reply and then detach them, so as to minimize distraction at the top of the thread. Unfortunately, that has led to the same questions being asked over and over, so I&amp;#x27;m going to move all the replies underneath this stub, and then collapse it. The reason for a stub root comment rather than just collapsing all the replies is that a list of dozens of collapsed replies would take up most of the page.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also going to partition them by topic, since there are so many.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>All: apologies for the interruption, but don&amp;#x27;t miss that there are multiple pages in this thread, with over 2000 posts by now. You have to click through the More links at the bottom to see them all. Later pages have all kinds of stuff that is just as interesting. It&amp;#x27;s kind of incredible.&lt;p&gt;(We intend to get rid of pagination once the next implementation of Arc is ready.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What&apos;s your quarantine side project?</title><text>For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on &amp;#x2F; building &amp;#x2F; learning?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been making excessive amounts of bread.</text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p4bl0</author><text>That would be nice. And also a way to wrap all comments that are replies to first-level comments  so that we can see all these and only reaf discussions on projects that interest us.</text><parent_chain><item><author>n_t</author><text>Is it possible to add some basic sort options for comments - latest and top score?</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>If you want to reply about comment sorting and ordering, do so here.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>Replies to this top comment have been quite a job to juggle. My approach has been to reply and then detach them, so as to minimize distraction at the top of the thread. Unfortunately, that has led to the same questions being asked over and over, so I&amp;#x27;m going to move all the replies underneath this stub, and then collapse it. The reason for a stub root comment rather than just collapsing all the replies is that a list of dozens of collapsed replies would take up most of the page.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also going to partition them by topic, since there are so many.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>All: apologies for the interruption, but don&amp;#x27;t miss that there are multiple pages in this thread, with over 2000 posts by now. You have to click through the More links at the bottom to see them all. Later pages have all kinds of stuff that is just as interesting. It&amp;#x27;s kind of incredible.&lt;p&gt;(We intend to get rid of pagination once the next implementation of Arc is ready.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What&apos;s your quarantine side project?</title><text>For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on &amp;#x2F; building &amp;#x2F; learning?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been making excessive amounts of bread.</text></story>