I'm kind of surprised there isn't more interest in this. Do people have other ways of dealing with the volume? I suppose I could just write a GreaseMonkey script, but it seems better to have it integrated with the forum.
Wouldn't you agree that it depends on what you're trying to do? If you want to read every comment, there is no problem. If you want to only read the 10% highest ranked comments, there is a problem. It's this problem I'm trying to solve, and I assumed others had the same problem. It's possible I was mistaken.
Oh, yeah, definitely. I'm just saying that there isn't enough traffic yet for the comments page to outpace my reading, although this will presumably change eventually.