Doing an AMA using Discourse

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

For a group of people answering questions, we have this:

Two-layered conversations (shadow topic)

Consider a community of “experts” on some topic. Experts would like to post articles or questions on this board, to be discussed only by the other members, who are also experts. For this part, they can use any reasonable traditional message board software (with membership restricted to experts). Here is the new part. For each topic opened by an expert for comments by other experts, there should be a “shadow” topic automatically opened for comments by “the public”. Say, the expert’s topic is vi…