This button has been broken for at least a year, so the code has
suffered from bit rot and should be reimplmemented if the feature is
necessary in the short term (which is unlikely since it has been broken
for so long).

This reverts commit 2df3fe93.

Conflicts:
	common/static/coffee/src/discussion/utils.coffee

This reverts commit acfd0d9f, reversing
changes made to e4194c99.

fix cohorts in create, and read, and update regular expressions to fix courses with periods not working in General commentable