Comment by 001sky
10 years ago
Even if the don't collapse, It might be nice to see first level comments have some kind of distinguishing visual context...to get to another thought... eg, comment number 2,3 etc...is ofetn buried under 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.4 sub comment discusion minutia....when a top comment has 30 or 40 sub comments.
you should be able to scroll a page and pick out the top 5 original comments...even without collapsing...
Yes. What do you think of my https://github.com/alain94040/arguably, which is an extreme take on your suggestion?
Interesting. Some of this fits in with my "non-brief moderation thoughts" essay: https://redd.it/28jfk4/
In particular: no content-ranking system is perfect. Some level of random ordering (within a range) is probably actually preferable.
Also, Aon on randomness:
"When your reasons are worse than useless, sometimes the most rational choice is a random stab in the dark" http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/is-the-most-rational-choi...