Sure! So, obviously as more and more people join Hubski we're going to need ways to keep the page from getting cluttered with thousands and thousands of comments. The issue is with the number of comments you can keep on screen at any given time. Now, it's been said before, but sites that allow you to close comments essentially allow you to ignore information. I'm not saying that to do so is inherently wrong on the part of a user- obviously a lot of Hubski is about ignoring information. But making ignoring information simple contributes to "tl;dr" syndrome. If you're reading through comments and then one of them becomes a huge block of text, I think most people's first instinct is to kinda glance at the key points and move on however they can. Making this easy devalues large posts. I could be wrong about the above, but it's something I've noticed in myself, and often if you look at comments surrounding large comments you can see people commenting who haven't read the whole comment. The longer something is, the less likely everyone is to read all of it! Seems simple enough. So, without limiting comment length or accidentally devaluing long comments, what can we do? I've only come up with a few solutions.

Imagine if every comment with more than a few replies had a window below it like the reply window- Resizable, scrollable, and similar to its background but slightly different. This would allow you to scroll through comments or make them take up whatever amount of the screen you wanted. These windows wouldn't be nested- you wouldn't want windows in windows in windows.

I have also wondered about having the equivalent of a deck of comments- arrows to the left and right of a comment chain which would lead you to the next comment chain. But while any chain was on your screen it would have the full run of it.

My basic goal of this is to make the action of the user to be discovering information, not hiding it. If the goal of the site is to discover things, then I'd rather have the way that people interact with comments reflect that. Does that make any sense?

Let me know if you have any other ideas about how to organize comments!