It depends on what you read. If I had not been here to read all of patio11's exhortations on A/B testing and sales, I'd be worse for that. I would have had comm

It depends on what you read. If I had not been here to read all of patio11's exhortations on A/B testing and sales, I'd be worse for that. I would have had commercial sites running with a major exploit if I hadn't seen tptacek warning about it. Not having that headache was very nice. But any time spent on threads about TechCrunch, TorrentFreak, The Next Web and other such high-drama zones is probably pure waste. If you're spending a lot of time on here, unless you just find it inordinately entertaining, you're probably getting a low ROI — because 90% of everything is crap. If you very selectively click on stories and just read the recent comments and submissions by patio11, edw519 and whoever else you find to be insightful, you're probably getting a good ROI.