“When there are 100+ comments, I think it’s a valuable service to split them”—I agree with splitting them as well and I don’t have an issue with hiding them, but there’s two ways of splitting them. There’s the hiding option you’ve proposed and there’s the option of having a seperate Offtopic Comments header that marks that a new section of comments has begun. I’m not advocating for this as better than the other option, just listing it as a possibility.
“When there are 100+ comments, I think it’s a valuable service to split them”—I agree with splitting them as well and I don’t have an issue with hiding them, but there’s two ways of splitting them. There’s the hiding option you’ve proposed and there’s the option of having a seperate Offtopic Comments header that marks that a new section of comments has begun. I’m not advocating for this as better than the other option, just listing it as a possibility.