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SomethingAwful is remarkably good, at least as long you stay out of the designated shitpost zones. The combination of monetary buy-in and legacy community does

• wanda 3y ago
  I'll second that. Though I have rarely logged into it the last ten years, I used to be more active on SA before that. Lots of people have complained about moderation there but I think it's just a case of avoid the designated spam areas, and don't post nothing. The latter part is how the HN community tends to self-curate comments anyway.
• coding123 3y ago
  Is Serious Hardware Software Crap still there?
• sph 3y ago
  I'm not so sure. See, you could say I'm politically on the left, but I've noticed Something Awful is way too radical for my experience of HN and Reddit-style leftism. There is this paradoxical American anti-intellectual air about the site which I didn't notice until using it for a couple years, that turns me off from talking about anything serious. I know it's a comedy site, but often people and mods get angry because you don't agree to the same "eat the rich" mob mentality. US politics has ruined the Internet, and I would like that as far away from my software talk. If a place is politicised, I'd rather have good old anarchism which works well with anti-censorship/cryptography discussion and hacker mentality, than anything on both sides of the political spectrum which turn people into mindless followers.