[jvoorhis]

While we are all going off-topic, I'd like to see a "collapse thread" feature on HN. Quite often the comments page is dominated by a tangential discussion as seen here.

[bolasanibk]

Not exactly what you wanted, but this chrome extension does this.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

[amlgsmsn]

I agree, the author picked a really bad example(Office) to make his otherwise good point. Office certainly isn't a shitty product compared to its competition.

You can use browser extensions like hckrnews or 'Hacker news enhancement suite' to collapse comments.

http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions

[pcurve]

I love you.