I see a fair number of Posts (Discussion Posts) that are along the lines of "random thoughts", sometimes bitcoin related, sometimes not. A few of them get useful replies, many get no replies or nothing I consider substantive.
Many would be better suited as a comment in the Daily Discussion thread rather than being done as a Discussion Post of its own.
The thing is, more than just on a rare occasion, one of these simple comments posted on Daily Discussion does end up spurring a decent discussion ... where in hindsight it might have been better if it was a post of its own. But a person won't necessarily know this would be a good discussion until after they've posted the comment and the discussion then occurred.
So, ... my thought on this is ... how about making it a simple step for the user to convert a comment (of their own) that occurred in the Daily Discussion such that it moves the comment and replies below (i.e., the entire discussion) into its own Discussion Post. A title then needs to be composed by the SN user but the Item record storage already supports a Title, so I think this is a feature that probably could be added without doing all that much design and dev work.
So, ... just thought I'ld pass this suggestion along.
That would be neat.
We'd need some kind of button like 'turn this into a post' and then technically it's a little tricky because posts are distinguished from comments in that they have a "parent."
Good suggestion. I'll think on it more.
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