Maybe an upvote/downvote mechanism encourages evaluation by the first simple binary criterion that comes to mind, like agree/disagree.
Whereas merely bland comments would get many "not good"/"not bad" votes and remain hopelessly stuck at a score of zero.
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Starting these comments at -1 would mildly disincentivize chaff without making people feel rejected or attacked by a concrete person.
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Just to be clear, in this system, goodness would just show as 0 until more voters said "good" than "not good". Same with badness.
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