That sounds reasonable and yet isn't always good advice; you don't throw yourself out the window and "wait to see what it's like".

I fail to see the problem with the current system / current comments; bad comments usually drown at the bottom of the page and that's that.

What would be the point of preventing noobs from commenting? What's with this love of aristocracy? "We were here first!!" So what? (I have 4k+ "karma" and my account is more than 2k days old but that does not make me special in any way, shape or form. If anything, it probably means I have already said all I ever had to say and should be shot in the head to make room for the young!! ;-)

But in this supposedly "democratic" system we're not given any choice so I guess we simply have to take it...