You make a good point. I hadn’t considered that.

I have been, on occasion, setting up an announcement with a simultaneous discussion link, but only when I thought it was something that would raise debate. I shall make it a habit of doing this with each new post.

This raises another issue for me – comments vs. forum. We have both capabilities. But they don’t really dovetail. The comments link will take you down the same page to where comments start. “Discuss in forums” will bring you here to the forums.

Comments are more limited. They only follow a specific article. On the forums, you can initiate topics independently. Also, forums gives you more flexibility for quoting, going back and editing, uploading images and so forth.

I guess my question here is – are comments redundant – should I just link everything up to go to forums for discussion? Or is redundancy fine? Actually, redundancy may not be the issue. More likely people miss some of the discussion by visiting either forums or just the article & its comments.

Hmmm. Another “usability” issue.