that does not address the core issue of this problem: that patrons are not discussing each other's own ideas
Yeah I dont Have any of my own. Did you ever think that the article may represent the views poster or that he may like to hear what others think of it?

2. make sure the original poster matches the amount of characters he has pasted, letter for letter, via the addition of his own words on the same subject. if his own words have less characters than the characters in the article, then the thread gets locked instantly.
So you want to make it twice as tedious to read and have them repeat what the original article said in different words. That ludicrous. I would also like to point out that in most cases I post for more words of my own than I do from cutting and pasting. In fact its probably about 100 to 1 ratio.