I would frame it more the opposite: I can easily see comments that are worthless to me, and I want to automatically downvote any comments by the same user (perhaps needs tags: there are users whose technical opinions are great, but I’m not interested at all in their jokes or politics).
One problem with your idea is that moderation votes are anonymous, but ranking up positively or negatively depending on another users votes would allow their votes to be deanonymised.
Perhaps adding in deterministic noise would be enough to offset that? Or to prevent deanonimisation you need a minimum number of posting friends?
In fact I would love to see more noise added to the HN comments and a factor to offset early voting. Late comments get few votes because they have low visibility, which means many great comments don’t bubble to the top.
One problem with your idea is that moderation votes are anonymous, but ranking up positively or negatively depending on another users votes would allow their votes to be deanonymised.
Perhaps adding in deterministic noise would be enough to offset that? Or to prevent deanonimisation you need a minimum number of posting friends?
In fact I would love to see more noise added to the HN comments and a factor to offset early voting. Late comments get few votes because they have low visibility, which means many great comments don’t bubble to the top.