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

This is a fantastic feature! I look forward to making good use of it. Would it be possible to not automatically create a topic until a user chooses to comment on the article? I want to prevent having a ton of topics with no replies (i.e. which were created automatically by visitors who only read articles and not commented on them). I’m specifically thinking of a site with a large number of articles; only a few of them will actually have comments. What would be the most reasonable way to achiev…