I was wondering if maybe it would be a good idea to have a comment system based on votes, similar to reddit or digg.

Comment's would be [+]'ed or [-]'ed, with the best ones being at the top, lowest at the bottom or hidden. So basically the comments would be sorted by popularity rather than time posted.

It sure would improve the quality of comments that are visible to sponsors/newbies/everyone etc.

I think alot of us old timers are used to the plussing good/funny comments but I think it's still a little used feature by most of the general population, maybe it would give them more of a reason to use it.

The only problems I can see :

1) Does anyone even work on this site anymore?

2) Most of the site [-]ing a few of the people they do not like/agree with.

What do you think? Good idea/bad idea?