Thread:Feedback/Automatic child-hiding considered harmful/Gmaxwell

Hm. Hide the whole thread once it gets too big, with an expanding button and an indicator of thread size? That would be even better from a performance perspective, and would avoid people evading your countermeasure by replying higher in the hierarchy.

Basically this would be like turning on summary mode when a thread gets too big, even if there is not yet a summary written. This would encourage people to write a summary at that time, and save people from wading through a zillion posts just to decide that they really have nothing more to contribute.

Thoughts?