From NWEdible: "Your participation makes this whole thing work, so join in! Comment policy: Wheaton's Law enforced here."

For users:
    - Optional RSS/Email updates to replies (disabled by default)
    - Option to sign up for newsletter as part of posting comment (disabled by default)
    - optional link/website field
    - Threading max 4 levels

For me:
    - auto spam filtering
    - auto-close old threads. maybe old threads just get a really hard captcha
    - moderation edit/delete 
    - load as an iframe or some other form of lazy loading 
        - or we have to regenerate the page more often, which could DDoS the site if I fuck it up.

    - Pull in Webmentions. Particularly interested in Facebook as a source of discussion that gets pulled automatically to the site and displayed inline with comment. Showing the chatter from Twitter feels slightly less useful. A the same time FB could be not that interesting much of the time too... Pull selected things? That's a lot of manual work. Doesn't scale. 
    

Things I thought about but didn't use:

http://posativ.org/isso/docs/quickstart/
http://tildehash.com/?page=hashover

forums:
http://camendesign.com/code/nononsense_forum


why:
http://www.jeremyscheff.com/2011/08/jekyll-and-other-static-site-generators-are-currently-harmful-to-the-free-open-source-software-movement/