1. A method comprising: providing access to an online discussion, wherein the online discussion includes one or more threads; accepting, for the one or more threads of the online discussion: a posting by an author participating in the discussion; and one or more responses to the posting by other individuals participating in the discussion; automatically producing for the author a recommendation for amending the posting to increase the likelihood of response to the posting by other individuals participating in the discussion via: triggering an agent based on fulfillment of at least one predetermined criterion; the at least one predetermined criterion being based on: time elapsed since a last login or view time by the author; a number of replies to the posting; and at least one of: a number of views of the posting, a number of times that explicit feedback has been provided by at least one other individual, and a degree of similarity with respect to an existing posting; and thereafter employing the agent to make a determination for performing at least one of: providing explicit feedback from at least one other individual, and classifying the posting to suggest further action to the author.
1. A method comprising: providing access to an online discussion, wherein the online discussion includes one or more threads; accepting, for the one or more threads of the online discussion: a posting by an author participating in the discussion; and one or more responses to the posting by other individuals participating in the discussion; automatically producing for the author a recommendation for amending the posting to increase the likelihood of response to the posting by other individuals participating in the discussion via: triggering an agent based on fulfillment of at least one predetermined criterion; the at least one predetermined criterion being based on: time elapsed since a last login or view time by the author; a number of replies to the posting; and at least one of: a number of views of the posting, a number of times that explicit feedback has been provided by at least one other individual, and a degree of similarity with respect to an existing posting; and thereafter employing the agent to make a determination for performing at least one of: providing explicit feedback from at least one other individual, and classifying the posting to suggest further action to the author. 3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the recommendation addresses at least one member selected from the group consisting of: insufficiency of content; duplicative content; and organization of content.