It had an intelligent and interesting community that was almost exclusively made up of programmers. The submissions were made up of programming, science and gen

It had an intelligent and interesting community that was almost exclusively made up of programmers. The submissions were made up of programming, science and general interest links. What made it great was the quality of comments; the discussion was the most interesting and insightful of any on-line community I've ever found. The links these days aren't the problem - its the comments. Sadly I've found the quality of my comments has dropped along with general trend - people tend to ignore long comments these days in favour of quick opinions. [edit] also the size of the community helped. You got to know regular posters and this lack of anonymity encouraged a quality of discussion.