I read-or-at-least-skim all comments on the entire site anyway.

I had to go back and reread this to really understand the implications. Suddenly it's much clearer to me why you and other moderators care so much about keeping Recent Comments clean and want features like the troll feeding fee. Low quality comments, no matter in what thread, impact your experience much more than mine.

(Not to imply that reading many threads, or Recent Comments, is something only done by moderators.)