Very cool. I'll definitely take a look. As far as I'm concerned, integration will be key. Forums, as such, are *part* of the answer even in a lot of places where they suck today. Even the chatrooms connected to SE serve this purpose from time to time. I'd like to see a way for the chaos of forums to seek nice, dark, quiet corners, while the good stuff -- the "sticky posts" or whatever -- can float to the top and be promoted to something more dignified than a "post". I'd bet you could come up with a pretty good list of requirements just by listing "forum antipatterns" that you want to break: The troll. The "haven't we done this seventeen times already?" thread. The "you're not following the rules for this category" thread. ... and so on. Should be interesting. Thanks for the contribution.