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I joined Metafilter in 2002, and although I no longer use it as my main source of content discovery, I do love to go back now and again. It's always been a top
by dsnuh 8y ago
I joined Metafilter in 2002, and although I no longer use it as my main source of content discovery, I do love to go back now and again. It's always been a top notch community, and if you haven't ever spent some time on the site, I highly recommend it.
- AlexCoventry 8y agoI still read it and scan through maybe five comment threads a week for insightful perspectives, but I no longer participate because the community is toxic and mind-killing these days. To me, at any rate. Edit: IB4, "Metafilter: Toxic and mind-killing, these days."
- Sangermaine 8y agoDo you mind explaining why you think so? That's a pretty surprising perspective; the community often has intelligent discussions about a range of topics.
- AlexCoventry 8y agoYes it does, as long as the discussion doesn't veer into political questions, which can happen in surprising and dismaying ways at times.
- dsnuh 8y agoBut I find that to be true of every online forum I can think of, HN is no different.
- AlexCoventry 8y agoNo, explicit personal attacks are generally frowned on, here.
- dsnuh 8y agoI haven't found that to be generally acceptable on Metafilter, but again, I haven't really frequented since the mathowie days.
- AlexCoventry 8y agoThat was a long time ago.
- jstarfish 8y agoThere came a point around 2010 where too many posts and threads were being dominated by militant nitpicking feminists, with an occupying force of transgendered cat ladies. I have no dog in the feminism fight but metafilter quickly devolved from a community garden into a special interest forum concerning matters of the vagina. I just peeked at the top few articles on main page for nostalgia's sake. Already I see an article concerning toxic masculinity, and another of a game exploring rape trauma. Not much has changed.