> Any better UI ideas? Reddit has pre-collapsed comments, which seem reasonable. But that will collapse the whole thread, which is undesirable. > it practice

> Any better UI ideas? Reddit has pre-collapsed comments, which seem reasonable. But that will collapse the whole thread, which is undesirable. > it practice it attracts attention to the down voted comments. I'm more interested in the premise of this question. (a) Is really this true, and backed up by HN-scraping of some sort? (b) Do we want it to attract less attention? Sometimes they attract insightful replies explaining a common misconception. In short: what problem are we trying to fix? Has this really reduced the quality of threads by much? By what metric and by how much?