One approach would that everyone (or perhaps everyone above a moderate karma level) has the authority to promote—after all, anyone can post anything to Discussion.
The advantage of changing things is that a promoted open thread comment would bring its comments with it. If you want a restriction, it might be that the original comment and/or the original comment + it’s comments have some specified karma total.
I’m interested in trying to figure out how to do this, but am curious about who would have promote authority.
One approach would that everyone (or perhaps everyone above a moderate karma level) has the authority to promote—after all, anyone can post anything to Discussion.
The advantage of changing things is that a promoted open thread comment would bring its comments with it. If you want a restriction, it might be that the original comment and/or the original comment + it’s comments have some specified karma total.