On Hacker News it's common to hear people say they read the comments before reading the article. That's the acid test. I mostly only read comments - unless the

On Hacker News it's common to hear people say they read the comments before reading the article. That's the acid test. I mostly only read comments - unless the topic is one of core topics I am interested in. But for learning stuff HN comments got to be the highest bandwidth channel I have ever used. Also I would like an offtopic site that this community could use. Obviously site like that would have to be endorsed by PG to really work. And PG is really too smart to let it happen.