[visarga]

> these sorts of systems get worse the larger they get. And that getting too big too fast is definitely a bad thing

I was thinking about it - why not add a view mode displaying only the comments of the early adopters? On reddit, for example, it would be interesting to see only comments of users with accounts 5+ years old.

[mplewis]

Gawker's network effectively does that by focusing on only Featured Comments when you scroll down and making you click through to the plebs.

[fivedogit]

I thought about this idea -- only displaying comments from users with high ratings or whatever -- but decided it would break conversations. Users would see comments, but not some responses or worse, some responses without the original comment, etc.