Three Online Discussion Topics

So we had to choose three out of seven online discussion topics. Initially I found it difficult to choose a thread to reply to as we were presented with so many. I did like the way I was able to relate the topics to my own personal experiences. I think the only major drawback with this type of discussion was the fact that most people chose to reply to the same threads and with so many people partaking it became difficult to keep up with the conversation. It would be great if Sakai’s discussion forum had a tagging feature so you could tag the name of the person whose post you are replying to. I did find the topics and peoples comments quite fascinating. I was also curious as to why a couple of topics were left completely untouched… Was this because people felt that these subjects were too controversial or were they fearful that there would be a strong conflict of opinions?