"Discussion" would involve both sides (as in Bethesda and those that don't want Steam in Skyrim) sitting down and trying to work it out. Instead it's just a cyclical thread of the same arguments and no reasons or details about the decision of Skyrim using Steam being given out (and it's obviously a decision not open to change).
That said, the mods are all just offline right now. Once one comes online and sees that a new thread hasn't been started one will be opened. Report the locked thread to flag it as needing a new edition.