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This could be annoying, if we have to check all the comments upstream from the one we're responding to, to make sure there isn't a comment that might be downvoted to -4 in the future and make the effort a waste. I pointed out a bunch of potential downsides of this proposal to Eliezer but even I didn't think of this one.
Yeah, most of the systems that do this sort of thing seem to hide the low-scoring comments but show high-voted children, avoiding that sort of problem.