I suspect threads with excessively high churn (combination of up and down-votes) across the comments in the thread indicate dogmas colliding. The false-positive to watch out for would be people saying interesting things that go against the status quo.
Something like:
comment is interesting if (score * 2 + 5 > number_of_votes)
thread is interesting if (number_of_interesting_children * 2 > number_of_children)
Something like: