User blog comment:NeonSpotlight/Where did comments go?/@comment-3308937-20120810210845/@comment-2124153-20120812002306

I didn't make this experiment because we were "overwhelmed,"

It's irrelevant the specific reason, the fact of the matter is that you don't want to moderate the comments. No problem. Let the people who DO care about comments, keep them clean of spam. You don't think that you can find anyone? First of all, you never tried in the first place. Second of all, a halfhearted attempt by me already shook two volunteers out of the tree. If you actually put some effort into it, I think that there will be heavy commenters who are willing to step up.

Or, you could just wave your hand around, and consider yourself better than everyone else, that works too.

Let's say everyone who voted viewed 100 pages.

Let's not make baseless speculation. You've already abdicated authority on this subject because you didn't use unique pageviews, and instead assumed that people hitting F5 were all different users. Never mind that you have no idea who agrees with comments but didn't vote, you also poisoned that well by insinuating that you'd just ignore the results anyway, giving people no reason to actually vote in the first place.