Some forums do have wikis where dedicated forum members or admins write up articles detailing important topics of interest. That takes a lot of effort and topics are only as good as the authors behind them. Even a venerated site like Wikipedia can have trouble with source material and authorship.
As @Bimodal_user points out in a just previous post, a great source of information is Audiology Online. You can sign up for free and register for and audit courses at no charge. The much better illustration that @Bimodal_user provided illustrating how Spheric Speech directionality and aggressiveness can be modified in the MyPhonak app similarly to how itâs controlled in Target came straight out of the downloadable slides for the following Phonak Audiology Online course:
Welcome to a New ERA | 39815 | Hearing Aids - (audiologyonline.com)
Although you always have to double-check AI chatbot conclusions, AI like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini read Internet forums and can summarize user âfactsâ and opinions on all sorts of things. I think thatâs the wave of the future. Just as computers can perform math a lot faster than humans can by hand, AI will eventually (if it hasnât already) surpass humans in the ability to read, digest, and summarize (and even weigh reliability) of vast amounts of information. @AbramBaileyAuD might someday want to contemplate having AI read the forum posts and be able to summarize topic threads or even condense many posts from different threads into one topic âarticle.â Amazon already has an AI feature called âRufusâ the answers product questions and summarizes buyer reviews. Very POWERFUL! 
âAmazon Rufusâ AI experience comes to the Amazon Shopping app
There is already something primitive like that for each thread. The âTop Repliesâ button (beneath in the OP post in each thread) condenses a thread into the most âprominentâ posts, probably based on which posts get the most likes, which might approximate the voted usefulness or enjoyability of a post.
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Maybe youâd want to get rid of the Top Replies button below the OP post in each thread then?
I donât think the AI thatâs built into Discourse would do anything but summarize human replies. It would not add any information that some forum member did not contribute.
One forum problem that precedes AI is whether forum members actually see if a topic has been addressed and answered before reposting the same query and rehashing the same topic all over again. Some forums are very rigorous and heavily moderated in keeping everything organized in a limited number of threads on specific topics (wiki-like). Some forums, members perhaps enjoy chatting more about their personal experience divorced from any previous conversations on the same subject, which leads to a more helter-skelter forum where itâs much harder to learn the overall community sentiment and knowlege because itâs scattered across dozens of different places.
So, I think AI thatâs âreadâ every post in the forum down through time and can âunderstandâ across threads what people have said about specific topics, specific hearing aids, and specific hearing issues would help forum users better understand their hearing and their hearing aids. Isnât that the ultimate goal of the forum, or is it just a place to socialize? Thereâs nothing banning pure socialization; it can be done under almost any acceptable topic in the Social category, for example. Why ban making it easier to learn what other folks have said over time across many threads on many topics?
