This seems intuitively likely, and is likely true in many cases. In the end, if you don’t have good commenters, there may not be much to be done about it on a technical level. However, it’s not obvious to me it applies here. For example, the entire karma system is a technical solution that seems to be, if not ideal, better than nothing in dealing with the social problem of filtering content on this site and Reddit.
This seems intuitively likely, and is likely true in many cases. In the end, if you don’t have good commenters, there may not be much to be done about it on a technical level. However, it’s not obvious to me it applies here. For example, the entire karma system is a technical solution that seems to be, if not ideal, better than nothing in dealing with the social problem of filtering content on this site and Reddit.