>> A social network composed entirely of incredibly smart, obsessive opera fans would deliver all the information I could want about the opera scene, but it wou

>> A social network composed entirely of incredibly smart, obsessive opera fans would deliver all the information I could want about the opera scene, but it would fail to clue me in to the fact that, say, my country had been infested by a rising tide of neo-Nazis. > Except it would. I dunno. There are a lot of people on this site who think we shouldn't talk about politics, at all, ever. I guess the fact that we do talk about it is a point in your favor. But it isn't at all inconceivable that there might exist a HN-like site where only strictly "on-topic" conversations are allowed.