Ars unfortunately suffers from the hivemind problem. They attached voting buttons a few years back, and unpopular enough opinions will be buried under a torrent of votes and be hidden.
But the idea of promoting useful comments is a good one, so long as the promotion is a mark of insight, not agreement with the author's politics. Ars doesn't suffer much from this, but given some of the polemic I've read on Guardian, I believe they may
But the idea of promoting useful comments is a good one, so long as the promotion is a mark of insight, not agreement with the author's politics. Ars doesn't suffer much from this, but given some of the polemic I've read on Guardian, I believe they may