If you don’t like quotes in a flat discussion system… you’re gonna have a bad time. Did you ever notice that my blog posts have quotes in them? They do!
Every blog of a certain size is a de-facto community. If you have 20+ regulars showing up and hanging around for just about every blog post, you have a community. For smaller blogs, that might not be true. Of course it depends what your goals are.
It has been improved, but will never be a full-bore embedding scenario. It’s more of a “here are my latest tweets!” or “here is the latest RSS!” panel. An observation window.
See this meta post.
Where did I say that? I don’t think I ever said that. I refer you to the official Discourse guidelines that ship with every Discourse instance
Downvotes have no place in systems of discussion based on opinion. They should be flagged, sure.