Hmmm.. I'm still not sure about the comment system. While it might be interesting to look in someone's profile and see the last few comments people have made about their posts I really don't think it would be used that much.

At least on my boards, if someone wants to "leave a comment" saying your post was wrong, they'll just reply and leave it right there for everyone to see.

Since Sitepoint's comments weren't functional (I don't think?) I wasn't sure what exactly they were supposed to do. Seemed kind of frivolous and unnecessary when we are working with a database-comment system already. Can you point out any advantages or uses of it that I might be overlooking? Removing the comment box from the karma pop up really simplified the look and apparent learning curve.

Tom would have 5 glowing red karmasticks and everyone would know that he is full of the shit