Civilized Discourse Construction Kit
Judging from the beta (http://try.discourse.org/) it doesn't seem to provide anything new in terms of managing a civilized discourse. The structure of the posts is very similar to regular forums; the only difference being the explicit replies, but they almost do more harm than good in the current implementation (it's just an expandable  and doesn't really help me understand the context).What I want from a "civilized discourse construction kit":- Build it for a real community and try to make it work within that community.- Make it possible to close threads, write summary for threads, group threads together, explore a topic. In general: Don't make the threads all about real-time, but rather focus on how they can be useful in the future.- Bring more structure than linear comments, but less complexity than threaded comments.- Encourage longer responses.There was recently a good thread on Reddit about this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/171xod/the_joys...