What about – and this is just blue sky daydreaming – a system like the NYT uses:
If you scroll down at the bottom of the article you’ll see:
I guess the idea is that by default you only see editor selected comments but with a single click you could switch to community best, or even all.
Of course by the time you’ve clicked the mouse to switch your view, I guess you could have clicked over to the BBS itself… just thinking out loud here.