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« on February 8th, 2013, 07:22 PM »
I came across Discourse recently; it's a forum built on Ruby on Rails, and I described it as the bastard lovechild of Vanilla and Google Wave. This is not a good thing.

But it does have some interesting ideas, most interestingly for me, it has 'Reply to New Topic'.

The idea is that you can hit the reply button, leaving a reference back to the original topic (e.g. as a quote or link) but essentially convert what would otherwise be an off-topic tangent into a new topic.

It's one method of keeping things on topic in what is essentially a flat topic model like we have.

Thoughts?
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« Reply #2, on February 9th, 2013, 12:48 AM »
I stopped reading at "Google Wave". :P
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« Reply #3, on February 16th, 2013, 09:43 PM »
So. Anyway.

Reply to new topic (leaving a post behind the old topic, maybe)... or even quote to new topic. Thoughts?

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« Reply #4, on February 17th, 2013, 12:47 AM »
Even the locked topic? What happens if you hit the reply button, leaving a reference back to the original topic that are locked?

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« Reply #5, on February 17th, 2013, 01:21 AM »
I'd be inclined to disallow reply-to-new-topic in that situation. If you want to reply and make it a new topic, just make it a new topic. Otherwise it's encouraging people to continue discussions that were locked for a reason.

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« Reply #6, on February 22nd, 2013, 01:08 PM »
Uhm, could be a nice idea.. problem is: if you have good users it's useful because they'd do a part of the moderation for you; but if you have noob users or not so good users it can result in a lot of new topics without much reasons. I'd suggest to set permissions to admin and mod by default (then can be added to other groups by the admin of course).
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