We're trying to stay away from karma and focus on what people are saying within the community, rank orders, overall semantics, and more. How do you think we can do better?
I'm ignorant on how you are measuring quality, but I think an interesting blend of karma with whether or not there are replies that argue. If the replies are generally positive, that may indicate quality. If the karma is below 1, and the replies include a number of refutations, that can indicate low quality.
I don’t think comment “score” is available in the api.
Correct it's not (at least that I can tell), but there are some (indirect) ways to approximate that number based on order, time, and/or color
Yeah I was thinking this as well, though the indications of color (maybe dead-ness also) would probably have to be scraped from the front-end.