raph was wondering how to handle discussions in diary items. I guess the Wiki approach would work, but there are others.

• In-Reply-To field in diary entries, and a threaded presentation option
• Diaries could become like personal instances of the front page. The diary owner would be the only one able to post top-level articles, but anyone could post replies.

We may be able to rely on the trust metric to keep people from editing what they shouldn't, which is the factor that's unfamiliar to those of us from Usenet and other BBSen, and might allow a Wiki approach

I wonder how Wikis handle people screwing up and blowing away entries. Do they implement revision control on the entries? I guess I should go look. Later: OK, some of them do. Good.

I wish someone would solve the 'endless maze of twisty little categorizations, all alike' problem ;)