2. A computer program product comprising: a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to provide access to an online discussion; computer readable program code configured to provide access to an online discussion, wherein the online discussion includes one or more threads; computer readable program code configured to accept, 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; and computer readable program code configured to automatically produce 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.
2. A computer program product comprising: a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to provide access to an online discussion; computer readable program code configured to provide access to an online discussion, wherein the online discussion includes one or more threads; computer readable program code configured to accept, 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; and computer readable program code configured to automatically produce 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. 4. The computer program product according to claim 2 , wherein the recommendation addresses at least one member selected from the group consisting of: insufficiency of content; duplicative content; and organization of content.