Embedding, but don't automatically create a topic until a user chooses to comment

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

Another possible approach, which I believe also has other use cases:

Category setting: unhide topic from latest when there is a reply

I’m interested in creating some categories where people are encouraged to create new topics liberally (for example, sharing links or “TIL” type posts). I’m concerned about this cluttering up the front page and I’m aware of the “hide topics in this category from latest” setting. Many of the topics would likely receive no replies. But on occasion, I think some of these topics could spark a discussion. It’d be cool if there were an option to auto-unhide the topic from latest once there were a r…