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[msuroo]

First - huge thanks to Theory and Rrenaud for all of the work on dominionstrategy and councilroom.  I would probably still be a village idiot if not for these sites.  (Although my wife might still enjoy playing the game with me - so I guess there's a tradeoff there  )

Reading through the comments for the latest blog post though (The Five Worst $6+ Cards), got me thinking.  With the forum up and running, does there need to be a comments section on the blog?  I find the forum discussions much easier to read than the comments - mostly because of the way quoting works in the forum rather than the "stepped" presentation in the comments.  Is there any appetite for having a section of the forum dedicated to discussion of the blog posts - maybe having the "comments" button link there rather than displaying comments on the blog itself?  It would also show really quickly whether there has been any new discussion on an old blog post, since I rarely go back and see if there are new comments on anything but the last couple posts.

[guided]

Love the idea of killing blog comments in favor of a forum thread for each post, linked directly from the post.

[theory]

You don't know how much we've searched for a forum system that integrates seamlessly with Wordpress comments (i.e., blogposts are threads and blog comments are posts).  Unfortunately, there is none.

What we can do is close comments entirely on the blog and have a link at the bottom of every post manually directing to a comments thread here.  It's not elegant: it won't display posts here as comments there, and it might kill guest participation (unless guest posting were enabled).

Is that a bigger harm than bifurcated discussion though?

[guided]

Is that a bigger harm than bifurcated discussion though?

If you ask me? Bifurcated discussion is way worse.

[Thisisnotasmile]

Could you not enable guest posting, but only in the "Blog Posts" section of the forum (assuming a new section is made for blog posts).

[msuroo]

You don't know how much we've searched for a forum system that integrates seamlessly with Wordpress comments (i.e., blogposts are threads and blog comments are posts).  Unfortunately, there is none.

What we can do is close comments entirely on the blog and have a link at the bottom of every post manually directing to a comments thread here.  It's not elegant: it won't display posts here as comments there, and it might kill guest participation (unless guest posting were enabled).

Is that a bigger harm than bifurcated discussion though?

Hi Theory,

I'm certainly not in favor of killing participation, but I guess I don't have a sense of how many blog contributors aren't on the forums.  I would guess that most all of the forum community reads the blog, but I certainly understand that the inverse is not necessarily true.  I just wanted to throw the idea out there to see if others felt the same way.

[msuroo]

Also, maybe it's worth throwing out a poll on the blog.  Presumably the forum regulars wouldn't mind having the blog post discussions here, but if there was a big pushback from the "blog only" demographic, I can certainly see the argument for keeping the status quo.

[theory]

What about old posts? Keep those comments open?

[guided]

What about old posts? Keep those comments open?

::shrug:: Yeah, probably.

[^_^_^_^]

I personally don't care.

[painted_cow]

I would also prefer the idea of msuroo. Just make a forum thread for a blog article and you can comment on it. In the blog you set a link to the forumthread.

[Elyv]

I would also prefer the idea of msuroo. Just make a forum thread for a blog article and you can comment on it. In the blog you set a link to the forumthread.

Second(or third, or whatever) this.