For Regular Commenters / Readers

Dear Peter,

you need quite a head of steam to sustain a forum. Probably comments works best. Only in unusual circumstances do your comments run away with themselves (Maltby). For most of us it’s convenient to see comments connected with their initiating post (your thoughts O wise Peter!)

Regards,

JF.

How would it ‘sit’ with other forums? The three samples you give on the link are endlessly debated on Anglican Mainstream to no end at all; I bet you would simply get the same people rehearsing the same arguments. Fulcrum seems to have a much wider appeal, and exhibits a bit more ‘sanity’ than AM. Faithspace, like AM, seems to be dying a bit at present, simply because people have been over the same old same old over and over again.   Thinking Anglicans, whilst clearly from a different standpoint to your own, is probably my favourite way of doing things and seems to combine forum/comment/reaction to Anglican affairs in a most coherent way. 
I think the question of whether you want to end up moderating a forum is the one you need to answer?   Thankless task…..     

You do need to have steam to run a forum. It takes a lot fo work. I am sure if you do your homework you’ll do well.