Quote by Blaine:
The only better option that I see is modification to story create template to add the "Use Forum" for discussion and create the forum topic then. That requires a MOD to the story admin program, user story contribute program and templates. And would then not be plugin independant.
I prefer that option. a bit of code in the core to check for the plugin's installation and display the link, "use forum," accordingly (and do a bunch of other stuff i'm sure). then have the rest dealt with by the forum plugin.
have a topic created that can only be created once (using the sid) at the first click of the "discuss.." button, then and all subsequent clicks of the button would post replies to the already created topic.
either way, sounds like a genius plan