Can we put in place a way of collapsing the first comment. It's so hard to read them by scrolling. Reddit has the - + and it's not optimal but a better system then we have here.
There is a firefox greasemonkey script called "Hacker News Threadify" [1], which claims to do just what you want. It works pretty well too.<p>[1] <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/110317" rel="nofollow">http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/110317</a>
If you use chrome, I can recommend the Hacker News Enhancement Suite extension:<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhancement-s/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...</a>
Collapsible comments have looked liked garbage on every site on which I've seen them used. I think having flat, always-open comments on our threads is actually a much better way of doing things.
I think it's fine as it is. I'd prefer it to be unwieldy, as to discourage overly meta discussions.<p>Like others mentioned, you specifically are not at a loss because someone wrote a script to solve it.