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Some negatives:

1) if you have a fast connection, you might want to get more posts at a time than 100 (I'd rather get the entire thread at once than have to click through as I'm reading it)

2) By using the "post comment" option, when people make comments on the thread it doesn't notify the poster. JH2 and Kat might like that, but the rest of us like to know when people contribute to threads we've posted. Maybe you could include a check box on the "post article" thread for whether "post comment" will flag the thread poster to the comment, that way JH2 and Kat can engage in hit-and-run posting, I can't imagine what their Self-Search feature currently looks like!

Yeah, post comment should probably flag in the poster of the thread. I include it as an option, because the new forum software does not need a comment when starting a new thread. Whether or not FR takes advantage of this for article posts could be a legal issue. However, this software is designed to post more than just articles. There will be templates for anything the site wishes to use, among these: discussion threads, excerpt+links, book reviews, polls & surveys, maybe even "caption this image". All up to the site owner.