What if the top comment is a line of discussion I'm not interested in? Too bad, because that is the only line of discussion anybody will engage in, because you

What if the top comment is a line of discussion I'm not interested in? Too bad, because that is the only line of discussion anybody will engage in, because you never see the second comment. I know I could scroll down 7 pages and find the second comment and discuss there if that line of discussion interests me, but who else would talk with me? Nobody, because noone wants to scroll down 7 pages.