" but for non-technical topics that appear on HN, the discussion would be a lot better if the average commentator read the obvious Wikipedia article before comm

" but for non-technical topics that appear on HN, the discussion would be a lot better if the average commentator read the obvious Wikipedia article before commenting. That’s true even though Wikipedia has a lot of problems" I have vague ideas of a forum, where any new poster has to answer some basic questions about the topic first correctly. Most online discussions would probably benefit from that.