As an aside - is it going to be prohibitively difficult for casual users like myself to become part of the elite now? If all but the most useful/insightful comments are stuck in pending until deletion, it'll be difficult to slowly gain karma through the odd up vote here and there. Even comments that start huge discussions (see my history for a recent example) seldom get more than a couple votes here, so it seems reasonable to assume it'll be harder to advance.