"make a comment" should say Make a new commnent -- otherwise I think some people will not realize as easily that they should use the reply button instead to reply.

I think the Forums bar in the left should show how many new comments were made since I logged in last. Or at least show how many total comments have been made in the Forum. The reason would be so I know to visit it because something has changed.

Added the total number of posts next to the Forums link in the navigation bar.

I noticed that when you click on comment it actually takes a while to accept sometimes, and so you end up clicking on the comment several times, thinking it didnt' work, and then you end up with multiple comments of the same thing. This same problem use to happen with the purchase button on financial transactionsa at sites. I think there needs to be a check that sees if the comment that your posting is the same as the last one and then just ignores it if it is to deal with this issue. Especially since users can delete their own comments.

These were comments for a lesson, not in the forum, which is very fast.