You could use a "dynamic" comment display setting and read only the top-level comments.

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Sven Triloqvist:

Absolutely selfishly, I'd prefer the categorized news in Salon to be with as few comments as possible, so one can read the news faster!

oh no!

they're the gravy. the headlines are too dry with it.

the only way i'd improve the salon would be to make the different 'rooms' linkable through their titles at the beginning, it would make for less scrolling when looking for where to post.

cheers to fran for such good work.

OT, lol, al jazeera just said that the shoe-throwing protester had been practicing a month to get his aim right, and what triggered his action was bush's 'icy smile'.

he knew a sociopath when he saw one!

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