Not only low-scoring, you can choose sorting method yourself. Still, you're right that paginated comments are appended on the page rather than loaded as a new v

Not only low-scoring, you can choose sorting method yourself. Still, you're right that paginated comments are appended on the page rather than loaded as a new view. My emphasis was on the fact that the number of loaded by default comments is rather high, making pagination necessary only on the very top commented stories, whereas on HN, as it is now, even quite noncontroversial entries' discussion threads are strongly chunked.