Metafilter is like any community. You'll enjoy it if you buy into most of the group think. Even hacker news has that guy who does great satire of how out of tou

Metafilter is like any community. You'll enjoy it if you buy into most of the group think. Even hacker news has that guy who does great satire of how out of touch this place can be. I favor hacker news over metafilter specifically because this place is less of a community of familiars. On metafilter the spirit of ingroup/outgroup behavior and the bullying that comes with that is intense. I barely even contribute there but the amount of nasty, mean spirited and passive aggressive interaction there is depressing. Lots of people like the idea of metafilter until they actually try to contribute in good faith and see the result.