Discussions

Inspired by the Notes feature, Discussions build a more communal experience by allowing precisionFDA users to pose discussion topics, and members of the community to juxtapose their answers.

A discussion topic functions much like a note, in that it supports rich text formatting and attachments. Under each topic, each participants is allowed to post exactly one answer, also richly formatted and with attachments. This model of interaction encourages people to write a single answer as their thesis to the posed topic. Additional lightweight commenting is enabled on both the discussion topic and individual answers, so that the community can give quick feedback and further stimulate the discussion. Users can also upvote discussion topics or answers, to mark their interest and in some way help others prioritize what they read first.

The Discussions section of the website lists all the discussions. Click on a topic to list all the answers. Click "Read answer" to see more details about an individual answer, or click "Join" to register your participation in the topic (even if you don't submit an answer). Click "Followers" to get a detailed list of users who have joined the discussion.

Creating a discussion

To create a new discussion, click "Create discussion" under the Discussions section of the Space. Enter a discussion title and fill in the rest of the content using Markdown syntax.

Writing an answer

To write an answer to a Discussion, check the "Mark as answer" checkbox on the discussion response.

Commenting

Members with "contributor" roles, can comment on any discussion or answer.