> there's a far more positive community when people have a shared interest Even old fashioned web forums and email listservs are still thriving in some niches

> there's a far more positive community when people have a shared interest Even old fashioned web forums and email listservs are still thriving in some niches and work this way. I think reddit fails here because it's too frictionless. Requiring a little bit of intentional action to join or subscribe keeps out a surprising amount of drive-by trolls. HN is pretty big now and has its share of trolls and bots but because it doesn't use social media accounts it's not nearly as bad as Facebook or Reddit.