Well, that and their top notch moderators! Jessamyn is exceptional at breaking up arguments, for example. Metafilter is quite an outlier in terms of online com

Well, that and their top notch moderators! Jessamyn is exceptional at breaking up arguments, for example. Metafilter is quite an outlier in terms of online communities that have survived, thrived, and kept a high signal-to-noise ratio.