Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-5275700-20160314184502/@comment-4984687-20160315002001

I have a few comments, though I do highly agree with Bronkiin regarding merges. Merging Discussions with Forums will be unbenefeciary and an overall unrecommended idea in my point of view.

Discussions, on their own, are good. As you said, it helps the ever-growing hand-held device community have more social interaction, quickly ask questions with usually a fast response, and give users easy accessibility from where ever they are (given they have an internet connection). This in turn makes it better for wikis as they gain a consistent larger audience.

I do have some small suggestions though:
 * Website Filters: I don't know how the anti-bot situation is going, but I know that spambots will always find one way or another to get pass filters. This can generally be avoided by submitted links in Discussions needing approval. I would still recommend that if this is implemented, a whitelist should be added so that common sites (i.e. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.) would need no approval.
 * Edit Function: Some posts may be overall acceptable, unless a word or two violates a rule. Forum and maybe Chat Moderators should be granted this function. Of course, if a post is edited, the person who did so must have their username appear to let users know.
 * Reply Specification: Discussions consist of people responding to the original poster, and in turn, other participants in a discussion. As such, I replies should have a "reply" option so that users who want to reply to one specific participant won't have to manually specify them by using things such as "@Example". It should also link to the reply, so that when users click on the link, it takes them to the specific post. This would come in handy in lengthy threads. I would discourage a quoting function, as on mobile, this can make threads harder to scroll through.

I hope you take these into account, and thank you for making a thread regarding this topic.