BTW, I just turned off orange usernames for now. It's not a policy decision; computing it was killing the server.
(It's not the computation itself that's the problem. The problem is that it causes a lot of stuff to get loaded from disk that would otherwise not be.)
I just went through and (roughly) calculated my average. I am just over the threshold. Which creates an interesting scenario:
A couple of stupid comments from me and I will fall below the threshold.
That creates a really great motivation.
So, if you add this feature back, it might be worth it to run some reports to see if there is a "sweet spot". Not to mention it would be really neat to see the distribution of average comment scores.
(It's not the computation itself that's the problem. The problem is that it causes a lot of stuff to get loaded from disk that would otherwise not be.)