Jeff Atwood's Discourse BBS software

Discourse is a from-scratch reboot, an attempt to reimagine what a modern, sustainable, fully open-source Internet discussion platform should be today – both from a technology standpoint and a sociology standpoint.

We tried to build in all the lessons learned from the last ten years of Internet web forums, so that the community has a natural immune system to defend itself from trolls, bad actors, and spammers. There's also a trust system, so engaged community members can assist in the governance of their community.

The act of participating in a discussion should fundamentally feel good in a way that it currently does not on all existing forums and mailing lists. It should be fun to have discussions with other human beings, not a chore, or something that's barely tolerable.

http://try.discourse.org/

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I am a proponent of, if the child wants to learn (which is like 95% of the time)

What kind of weird country do you live in? All the niggerchildren in South America won't bother if it ain't about soccer, rap or porn.

The other skills you mention are indeed essential skills. If anything, children should be taught to cook and keep care of themselves. I don't see what's the point of teaching programming to some retard who's pursuing a Womyn Studies major.