Would it be possible for you guys to do some thing similar or maybe even shamelessly steal the good idea that New York Times has about comments?

To be exact I specifically am interested in the idea behind "NYT Picks". This is an extremely nifty idea. We would know what the author and the stuff thinks is constructive and helpful. "Reader's Picks" will still be a thing like now. And then there will be "All". We could basically then choose which of the 3 type of comments we would like to read.

Maybe it has nothing to do with Comment system but I just went through the "NYT Pick" for this Amazon related article, and the quality of comment in the "NYT Pick" is very high.

The only thing to be careful about with this idea is that the staff needs to make sure that "Verge Picks" does not become an echo chamber with the same point-of-view as the writer. That would suck. So in an divisive article about Gamergate both side will have equal chance to be "Verge Picks" as long the comment is well thought-out. After seeing some NYT articles this seems very possible though.