Well I think we're at the former right now. Probably need a few more comments per post, but that will happen I think.
What we want to avoid at all costs is what happened at Reddit yesterday with the impeachment business. That's no good. I know they're working on it (spoke to them last night) but it was annoying there for a while.
Good point. On an unrelated note, however, your comment reminded me of another note I want to make: If your post is in response to a comment- please make sure and thread it. Because the site shows comments in the same nested level in different positions (either random or rotating or something, I haven't figured it out yet) each time the comments are loaded it gets real confusing if the comments aren't threaded correctly. There's plenty of horizontal space in the site's design so we shouldn't be reluctant to use it. The alternative, of course, is to quote what we're replying to.
I'm not a fan of threaded nature of comments. It's done to faciliate exactly that -- commenting, and does not provide for a proper discussion environment. It's difficult to follow a discussion from start to finish when popular comments are placed at the top.
What we want to avoid at all costs is what happened at Reddit yesterday with the impeachment business. That's no good. I know they're working on it (spoke to them last night) but it was annoying there for a while.