About discussion boards
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Discussion boards provide a forum for conversing about topics that interest your team. For example, you could create a discussion board for team members to suggest activities.
Each discussion board appears on a page that includes commands for starting new discussions, sorting and filtering discussions, switching to a different view of the discussion board, and changing the design of the discussion board. You can also subscribe to be notified of changes to the discussion board from the page that displays the discussion board.
When you reply to a comment on the discussion board, your response is indented underneath the comment you replied to.
By default, your SharePoint team Web site comes with a built-in discussion board named General Discussion, which is listed on the Quick Launch bar as well as on the Discussion Boards page.
About discussing documents
The Discussion Boards page also provides an entry point for using Web Discussions, a feature that enables you to add discussion comments to pages that you view in your browser.
If you are running Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later and a SharePoint Team Services-compatible client program, such as Microsoft Office XP or later, you can use the Web Discussions toolbar in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Otherwise, you can use the Discussion Boards page in your team Web site to use this feature.