[drupal-devel] unlimited comments displayed on drupal.org is a hack?

[Gabor Hojtsy]

>> The stock Drupal only allows setting of comment displays between 10 
>> and 90. Drupal.org clearly has something which makes all comments 
>> display. The 'makeover node' for example has 155 comments, all displayed:
>>
>>   http://drupal.org/node/11695
>>
>> Is this some hack in the drupal.org code, or have I seriously missed 
>> some setting? It would probably be diserably to provide such a setting 
>> on the comment control panel wouldn't it?
> 
> It's a drupal.org hack, sorry.  We should /expand/ that setting's range.

Would adding 'unlimited' be fine? I ask because it might have 
performance implications for sites having too many comments, and users 
setting this to 'unlimited'.

Goba