I don't think that's the case. I haven't seen much discussion about comment scores lately though people still grumble from time to time. With the discussion about it tapering off, pg wants to know if people's thoughts have changed.

Also, since this is hacker news, how do we know that someone isn't creating new accounts to sway the poll one way or another? Only way to tell would be having access to the poll results and votes logged/audited.