Dan, you know what would be cool for HN comments? The ability for each node of a thread to be annotated with topic names. For example, if the node close to the

Dan, you know what would be cool for HN comments? The ability for each node of a thread to be annotated with topic names. For example, if the node close to the root node here were to be labelled "Israeli politics", I, a user interested in the technical aspects of the topic, can immediately avoid it. This feature will be a killer feature for all topics that have divergent sub-threads! (I haven't thought further than just the annotation by end user feature - so, whether it ought to be at user level or a global one ... I don't know). :-D