I made a site for a client in which he said he disliked when the number of comments of an article were too long, so I resort to paged comments and only the last comments are shown by default.
Now, I'm doubtful about if paged comments are a good way to go, not only because some said it may affect SEO, but as user experience may be a concern. I have though of displaying only lasts comments on the main page and show the full list of comments on a separate page, or show the comments with ajax, yet I don't know how to do either.