The civility on HN is unparallelled I submit that http://ask.metafilter.com http://ask.metafilter.com is as good, or better. Mostly due to their excellent mod

The civility on HN is unparallelled I submit that http://ask.metafilter.com http://ask.metafilter.com is as good, or better. Mostly due to their excellent moderators. [edit to expand] Also because you have to pay $5 to join and they impose traffic caps on newer users to get around some of the spamming problems. So yeah... not entirely apples-to-apples.