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/

>>6

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.

>>9
Children are stupid and don't know what's good for them. If you don't know how to manipulate them into learning important (yet ``boring'') things, the TV will instead manipulate them into being stupider.

Also, if you expect your child to live in a democracy, they need to have a basic of understanding of formal logic so they don't end up voting for the candidate who dissed the others the most.

>>10,>>11
You're both dumb, illogical, and wrong.