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/

I'm reluctant to open up the world of "M" rated video games for my 11- and 12-year-old sons. Is there anything that's really going to click with them (other than Minecraft)? This seems to be a pretty big hole in what's out there. You either get G-rated kiddie games or hard-M FPSs.

One answer states:

They are at the perfect age to begin learning how to make their own games!

Good fucking G-d, when will they get over the ``everyone should learn javascript xD'' stage? This entire shitfad is pointless, not everyone should learn programming and you're going to make children hate computers if they end up hating programming because their redditard fathers told them to do so.

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not everyone should learn programming

Wrong. Everyone should be forced to learn mathematics, formal logic and programming at early ages. The world is chock full of morons and our incompetent education systems are a big part of the problem.