# Display 'top level comments' separate from comment replies (Alternative to Threaded Comments?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [August 7, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-top-level-comments-separate-from-comment-replies-alternative-to-threaded-comments/199585 "2021-08-07T13:36:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Fairtale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fairtale/32/230056_2.png) [@Fairtale](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fairtale)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-top-level-comments-separate-from-comment-replies-alternative-to-threaded-comments/199585/7 "2021-08-07T19:41:15Z")
Hi, first of all thanks for the suggestions, I really appreciate it. I agree with what you are saying about the likes not being indicative of support, which is why the “summarize post” feature is not working as expected for my use case. I want users to access a post and see only the answers, before spending time reading through answer replies. A thread might have only 3 real suggestions, but a total of 50 replies with questions/replies/comments about those suggestions. New people joining the conversation are, more often than not, too lazy to read through the whole thread, and end up only replying to the main post or the last few comments. So I am looking for a way to allow the post creator and/or the users to highlight certain replies in a way that those aren’t lost as the post grows and most of all: are easily seen **first** by whoever accesses the thread. What colors would you prefer? [example Thread] - blue; [example comment] - red; [example comment] - pink; [example comment] I am trying to come up with some out of the box solutions to achieve this, but I can’t seem to find a way to implement this in Discourse in any way: - In a threaded comments approach, those would be top-level comments (in contrast to replies to those comments). Kind of like Reddit, but without automatically expanding each comment. - In a Q&A system, those could be multiple answers to a question (but I don’t think discourse supports multiple answers) and showing all those answers on top (with a way to jump into the replies to each answer separately). - Summarize Post would be ideal, but like you said: likes don’t always reflect that it was a possible solution, often it just means people liked a comment. - Another approach could maybe be a layout in which replies are hidden by default, displaying first only comments that haven’t gotten any replies. The closest we could find to this has been Stackoverflow, the dev-team is pushing us to use it because they are used to it. We would lose the whole ease-of-user of Discourse, like the amazing ‘docs’ feature, ease of attaching images and so much more. I would really prefer to find a way to achieve something similar in Discourse. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-top-level-comments-separate-from-comment-replies-alternative-to-threaded-comments/199585)._