I wouldn't consider HN a social community. More like a sort-of-aligned rag-tag drive-by commenting site. In a community you know each other personally. Not that

I wouldn't consider HN a social community. More like a sort-of-aligned rag-tag drive-by commenting site. In a community you know each other personally. Not that it's not valuable or interesting, otherwise I would have quit it long ago. The value of any site is in its members' (self-selected) convictions, interests and skills and its self-regulatory and adaptive abilities... as vague as that sounds. But yea, I desire back the calm net too. If not for my sake, then for everybody else's. We're making it up as we go. That said it's a metropolis now, not a village...