Remember we discussed adding features along these lines to Discourse recently… unfortunately the one thing we can’t measure is whether you actually read the source article. But some interesting stuff has been proposed and we’re still thinking about this:
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don’t allow posting unless you can answer these quiz questions about the source article?
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don’t allow posting unless you have read (x) percent of the discussion topic?
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show how many posts you read in this topic (or topic read time, or both), next to the username of new users in that particular topic?
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require new commenters to rate some other new comments by other new commenters before we’ll post their comment?
Here’s one baby step we’ve recently taken, that was long overdue: you’ll note total and recent read time is now on your profile page and on your user card:
