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    Can you explain a bit more about how you came up with the values for the various actions and why you think they are useful indicators? I'm a little confused about the "+1 per username". What do you mean by that? We've talked extensively about what signal a user is sending when they upvote and expand comments. (Expanding comments is especially confusing when the action is also tied to writing a new comment as is the case right now.) But I think you are on the right track. Commented Dec 7, 2013 at 1:29
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    Your proposal does not measure anything about the extent to which the comment helped improve our evaluation of the answer or of the question, nor how often it triggered some improvement in the question/answer. (For instance, comment causes someone to edit the question/answer: you give 0 points. Comment causes someone to upvote good answer they otherwise wouldn't have: 0 points. Causes you to downvote bad answer you otherwise wouldn't: 0 points. That's odd.) And why is expanding all comments a negative interaction? The point values feel arbitrary and not clearly connected to any end goal. Commented Dec 7, 2013 at 4:37
  • @Jon - It was my understanding we were determining a metric to measure the impact of hiding comments. If hidden, the comments can be found with 1 click so it is not like they are removed - and as such I do not think hiding their content will change their affect on the post. I believe the only affect this will have on users is time. Extra time from inspection. The weighting came from that: Did the user have to click through or heavily inspect comments? Because if they do that often, there is no point in hiding them. Commented Dec 7, 2013 at 20:17
  • This is why if an expansion click occurs, it should negatively affect the interaction (since users probably didn't need that content hidden), if they upvote a comment it should positively affect the interaction since they found a useful point, and if they hover a username (which shows reputation) it should show that they are interested in the source of the content. The weighting is biased heavily towards upvotes, acknowledges hovering inspection, and biased against expanding. Commented Dec 7, 2013 at 20:18
  • @D.W. - The points are based on my assumptions because finding the scientific exact numbers to provide a perfect statistical model would be overengineering. This is in response to the cost to the user of displaying comments. The cost to the post? There is no direct blanket relation in my opinion so I did not cover nor address that. Commented Dec 7, 2013 at 20:20