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For those who are asking for opt-in/out (or have a thought on the matter): the current, now-operating inline review allows a third party to add comments to an existing inline comment.  I've used this from time to time, usually to disagree.

Is this feature/capability covered by your desired opt-in/opt-out?

Also, since a person can give multiple reviews now, such discussions could arise.  Should those also be blocked?

So for you it's okay if a review becomes a thread, so long as it is with one author?

Well, yes.  I'd attach the forum threads' interfaces directly to the work.  Note 'interface'.  I see no purely programming reason why a forum thread cannot apppear in several thread listings ... but that's the question of what the name of the song is called--the question of indirection.

Obviously we want to be able to view things in an appropriate way, whether it was entered 'traditionally' or by linking into the text of the work ('inline review').

I screwed up and edited something above that I meant to quote, about the data ballons.

Erndog,

If I were in charge of that school, the kids teasing Alex would have gotten the same punishment he did.  They attacked a classmate's weakness, not once, but continually.  That is the sort of barbaric behavior that needs to be civilized out of us.

A fight between two more or less equal kids is tolerable.  A kid fighting back against a bully is noble (and our educational establishment is determined to punish it because they want a monopoly on 'treating' the bully).  But an attack against a specific weakness is only legitimate in war.

Our schools protect the aggressor and punish the defender, teaching kids that they need Authority for protection.

Not mine, no!  I'm just a fan.  But the Foglios have covered so much in their story that you are sure to find something.  Candied fish, for instance.  Lab Full of Exploding Things #5.  The Island of the Monkey Girls.  An aperatif made from hedgehogs and toothpaste,  a green-haired warrior princess who proclaims herself `Daughter of Chump` and, of course, the Mad Social Scientist.

By the way, if you read that second sequence, you might have noticed the Spark named van Reijn.  His approximate dates would have matched a famous van Reijn from our version of history.

Moral development and development of techne are different, and don't always go together.  The National Socialists completely perverted their society's moral development, but pointed to both techne and the fine arts of their ancestors to prove how 'advanced' their culture was.  'Advanced' and 'civilized' aren't the same.

I suspect that lots of people in civilized societies are at the upper levels, at least most of the time.  But the people who can bring the advances about are rarer.  Techne is different.  You can get away from barbarianism in three generations if the surrounding pressures are right: if people are more likely to survive if they form a cooperating community and profit more from peaceful trade with other communities than from looting them.  It's rare but possible.  But developing techne--the useful arts and the knowledge that backs them--is the work of hundreds of generations, and can be lost if people stop doing it.  Do you know how many people's entire professional skillsets are needed to make a cellular telephone?  I sat down once and came up with twenty-odd, and I suspect the number is closer to a hundred.  And that didn't count the petroleum drillers and their geologists, or the people who make the drilling equipment, the people who make the chip-manufacture equipment, the people who mine copper and refine it ... you get the idea.

I see children being taught to invent their own ways to add under Common Core, with the tried-and-true method derided as 'the granny method', and I see a generation of children taught that they can, on their own, replace the work of five hundred years (since arabic numerals became common).  I compare this with Captain Kangeroo and the respect taught for 'Grandfather Clock', and I see teachers teaching a civilization to cast itself adrift and drown.

Such children will not have the skills needed to make the very computers on which they are being taught to depend.

I think our disagreement is somewhere near this point: that the format of a forum would allow an extended exchange that the review format does not.  The ability to add multiple reviews and to comment on other reviewers' inline comments moves us in this direction, but does not take us there.

There is a very, very dusty maxim in Computer Science that there is no programming problem that cannot be solved by adding another layer of indirection.  But in this case the point about posting rights intrudes.

My question is: does the indirection appear where the user sees it, so that the user chases the link, or do the forums -appear- with the story, with the link-chasing done in the server tiers or the web machinery?  Both can work.  Which works better?  (I'm assuming that there's no practicably insurmountable obstacle to having a particular forum appear in multiple places.)

Amy, I will get to your story this evening, I promise!  I should have gotten to it testerday, bu ... I'll explain later.

Somewhere in the last day or sl the forums have become all but unusable on my Android.  The page is wider than my display, which is fine, but I cannot shift it right or shrink it--and that is not fine.

Curiously, it allows the shrink when entering text.

The browser is Chrome.

This 'cannot shift or shrink' takes away the ability of the user to adapt to unforseen circumstances.  Can we please make the site usable on the Android again?

Objective case, thee and me.  Unless you're a reigning monarch, then us and thee.