Comment scores are back! (in a convoluted way, through the API). I can see that at this time that the top comment of this page currently (tptacek's) has 58 points:
http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...
http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...
edit: just removed from the search. still here: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/2619811-02e34...
expect to be gone soon.