Interesting. I don't think that trolling would be an inherent problem in a private Discord group for a Wolfram U course. I don't think trolling would be a problem if the entirety of the Wolfram Community's discussions were ported over to a Discord server. OTOH, I do think trying Discord with a few Wolfram U courses as an experiment would be a good way to start.
There is zero chance that our intro to Calc course would move to Discord. That would make no sense; it would be planned in advance -- probably >6 months in advance. We really don't get a vote in this. Maybe the first overture would be for Wolfram U to do a survey of its students and see what they think about the idea. I fondly hope that this is something @Jamie Peterson (Director of Wolfram U) would consider in the future. You're the only participant in these forums that I've ever conversed about their community software with. I happened out of random chance to stumble on the discussion you created.
I just don't know how much friction there is to staying with the Wolfram Community forums. Is that an important product for WR -- a selling point to companies to use their software? I don't know. I don't think so, but I could be mistaken.
