It would take a more active commitment to transform this site from a news site to a community platform. You can build a community on top of almost any technolo

It would take a more active commitment to transform this site from a news site to a community platform. You can build a community on top of almost any technology up to a certain size. But once you outgrow the everybody-knows-everybody level I think you either have to react with technology or there's some inevitable splintering. I'm just applying some of the same techniques that I've seen work in OSS; time will tell if they work out in this context too.