On: Ask PG: Any chance of an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News"?

[breckinloggins]

Compromise: how about showing points on comments but only after you yourself have accumulated a significant number of points?

[politician → breckinloggins]

Up-voted with a challenge: of what value is seeing comment points except stroking your own ego when your or your friends or people-you-always-agree-with comments' are voted up?

[breckinloggins → politician]

Of none whatsoever; but ego can be a great motivator.

The problem isn't being motivated by ego, it's being motivated by ego before you've proven to others that you can handle the responsibility. :)