this sounds like we need a second site, which would be the repository of the "wisdom" created on ET, ie finished products:

• diaries that aim at synthetizing earlier discussions (which may have taken place over various diaries and over long periods);

• letters to editors, articles, etc edited via ET.

Which brings us back to our discussion about the thinktank and Et-stamped publications, ie to approval and/or vetting process.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes