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Re:Ask PG: Is there any chance of getting points displayed a... by akavi on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @05:01AM (#3124469)
That's a secondary, and arguably unwanted purpose of voting.

The primary purpose is to push a valuable comment up towards the top of a page (or, conversely, push down a non-contributory comment).

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Re:Ask PG: Is there any chance of getting points displayed a... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @03:11PM (#3126630)
Oh wow, did I miss a major feature here. You're saying that currently on HN top comments go to the top of the page?

I thought things were ordered by datetime according to the top node of the thread?

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