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Another idea: in the upcoming Discussion section, there would be an option to turn a post into a top-level LW post, preserving the existing comments.
Current Open Threads say "If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post." This would improve on that by allowing the existing discussion to be preserved. A potential disadvantage is that this might make top-level posting too low-risk — everyone might start their top-level posts as open discussion posts, and only move them to the main LW category if they're well-received. Then again, I'm not sure if that's necessarily a bad thing.
Any thoughts?
There could be technical issues there, and with moving comments in general, but I think the major problem is semantic. The comments from the open thread post will relate to the open thread post; even if the post is well-received, it should certainly be rewritten before becoming a top-level post, and then the comments will not necessarily be relevant.
It seems like a much better idea to just take the existing comments into account when writing the top-level post, link to the open thread post for reference, and move on.