Heat mapped comment stars
The Verge's current system of giving stars to comments makes it easy to see which ones are the most popular. However, the system tends to break down with highly-read articles where all the top comments have stars.
So, why don't stars change color based on how many recommends they have? It could be like the comment count on forum posts -- green to blue to yellow to orange, or something like that. Thoughts?

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