If not, I think that would be a great feature. Sometimes I want to see all the replies, but occasionally, I'd just like to see fewer comments, and points seems like a reasonable filtering criteria.

Now that we have the source, there's nothing to keep someone from writing it, but it might be wasted effort if it wasn't accepted back into news.arc. So, it would be nice to know:

  1) Is this feature going to be added?
  2) If no, would a patch to news.arc be accepted?