When I look at the curated posts, I don’t have the sense of “this post will stay here for a very long time and continue to receive comments”. I think to myself, “this very well might be removed tomorrow and replaced with something else”. So what I envision with the Ongoing Discussions section is to make it clear that it will stay there for a long time and that the intent is to have long running discussions. However, after discussion here, I think it would be important for a cultural shift to happen before launching such a feature. (Well, it might still be worth launching as an experiment, because the bar for experiments is low.)
When I look at the curated posts, I don’t have the sense of “this post will stay here for a very long time and continue to receive comments”. I think to myself, “this very well might be removed tomorrow and replaced with something else”. So what I envision with the Ongoing Discussions section is to make it clear that it will stay there for a long time and that the intent is to have long running discussions. However, after discussion here, I think it would be important for a cultural shift to happen before launching such a feature. (Well, it might still be worth launching as an experiment, because the bar for experiments is low.)