On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Tim Hall wrote:

OK, so I'm probably guilty of thinking "hey, that's a nifty idea, how do we build it" without pausing at "Exactly why do we need this"; guess this is because I've been trained as a systems analyst rather than a business analyst.

Yes, I probably shouldn't have even brought up the spam issue... the technical stuff, I can solve.

I think there's less merit in trying to merge any followup discussions; it might be that piping category-level RSS feeds to specified fora is as much as is really worth doing.

The important part, for community-building, is to see that commenters have a means of finding replies to their comments. (Hit-and-run commenting is a whole 'nother anticommunity issue, though, which is slowly being solved by tech. Or rather, re-solved. But that's a whole 'nother rant.)