[kragormonkey]

> Any better UI ideas?

Reddit has pre-collapsed comments, which seem reasonable. But that will collapse the whole thread, which is undesirable.

> it practice it attracts attention to the down voted comments.

I'm more interested in the premise of this question.

(a) Is really this true, and backed up by HN-scraping of some sort?

(b) Do we want it to attract less attention? Sometimes they attract insightful replies explaining a common misconception.

In short: what problem are we trying to fix? Has this really reduced the quality of threads by much? By what metric and by how much?

[rapnie]

Agree. Would not be in favor of Reddit-like collapse. Overall I am happy with current system.

Slightly OT: On mobile the up- and downvote arrows are too close together. For every vote I have to zoom in to accurately click the right one. I suggested to HN Support to place the downvote arrow to the right of the comment header, or have a separator/spacing between the 2 arrows.